Intra-Party Diversity and Ministerial Selection in Coalition Governments. A Comparative Analysis of Four Western European Countries

Autor(en)

Hanna Bäck, Marc Debus, Wolfgang Claudius Müller

Abstrakt

This study focuses on the allocation of politicians to cabinet offices in different
institutional settings. We argue that cabinet ministers are appointed with the aim of minimizing the policy distance to the most important principal, which could be the Prime Minister, the coalition, or the individual parties that form the coalition. We advance this field of research by performing a comparative analysis of different coalition systems. We evaluate our hypotheses by estimating the policy positions of Austrian, German and Swedish politicians on the basis of a computerized content analysis of their speeches given in parliament. The results provide support for our argument and show that the policy distance towards the dominant principal is important for becoming a cabinet member.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Staatswissenschaft

Externe Organisation(en)

Lund University, Universität Mannheim

Journal

Public Choice

Band

166

Seiten

355–378

ISSN

0048-5829

Publikationsdatum

04-2016

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

506001 Allgemeine Staatslehre

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Sociology and Political Science

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/intraparty-diversity-and-ministerial-selection-in-coalition-governments-a-comparative-analysis-of-four-western-european-countries(affb8ef3-4cf5-4251-933b-2eed072d1d4b).html