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Who gets what in coalition governments?: Predictors of portfolio allocation in parliamentary democracies
Univ Mannheim, Mannheim Ctr European Social Res MZES, D-6800 Mannheim 1, Germany..ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0296-9419
Univ Mannheim, Mannheim Ctr European Social Res MZES, D-6800 Mannheim 1, Germany..ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7151-7942
Univ Luxembourg, Programme Gouvernance Europeenne, Fac Lettres Sci Humaines Arts & Sci Educ, L-7201 Walferdange, Luxembourg..ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6124-8833
2011 (English)In: European Journal of Political Research, ISSN 0304-4130, E-ISSN 1475-6765, Vol. 50, no 4, p. 441-478Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Ministerial portfolios are the most obvious payoffs for parties entering a governing coalition in parliamentary democracies. This renders the bargaining over portfolios an important phase of the government formation process. The question of 'who gets what, and why?' in terms of ministerial remits has not yet received much attention by coalition or party scholars. This article focuses on this qualitative aspect of portfolio allocation and uses a new comparative dataset to evaluate a number of hypotheses that can be drawn from the literature. The main hypothesis is that parties which, in their election manifestos, emphasise themes corresponding to the policy remit of specific cabinet portfolios are more likely to obtain control over these portfolios. The results show that policy saliency is indeed an important predictor of portfolio allocation in postwar Western European parliamentary democracies.

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WILEY-BLACKWELL , 2011. Vol. 50, no 4, p. 441-478
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coalition formation, portfolio allocation, policy saliency, Western Europe, Comparative Manifesto Project data
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Political Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-50834DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6765.2010.01980.xISI: 000289729200001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-79955006051OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-50834DiVA, id: diva2:1469885
Available from: 2020-09-22 Created: 2020-09-22 Last updated: 2022-03-16Bibliographically approved

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