A Special Majority Cabinet? Supported Minority Governance and Parliamentary Behavior in the Netherlands

Q3 Social Sciences

World Political Science Pub Date : 2014-10-01 DOI:10.1515/wpsr-2014-0016

S. Otjes, Tom Louwerse

引用次数: 14

Abstract

Abstract This article studies how the presence of the supported minority government Rutte-I affected patterns of legislative behavior. On the basis of the literature on minority cabinets, one would expect that during supported minority cabinets parliamentary parties cooperate more often across the division between coalition and opposition than under multiparty majority cabinet rule. Examining almost 30,000 parliamentary votes between 1994 and 2012, this study finds that on a host of indicators of coalition-opposition-cooperation, there was less cooperation “across the aisle” during the Rutte-I cabinet than during any cabinet before it. We explain this with reference to the encompassing nature of the support agreement as well as the impact of the cabinets’ ideological composition.

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一个特殊的多数内阁?支持荷兰的少数民族治理和议会行为

摘要本文研究了支持的少数派政府Rutte-I的存在对立法行为模式的影响。根据关于少数党内阁的文献，人们可以预期，在支持的少数党内阁中，议会政党在联盟和反对派之间的分歧中比在多党多数内阁统治下更经常地合作。这项研究对1994年至2012年间的近3万张议会选票进行了分析，发现在联盟-反对派-合作的一系列指标上，鲁特内阁的“跨党派”合作比之前任何一届内阁都要少。我们参照支持协议的包罗万象以及内阁意识形态构成的影响来解释这一点。

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