Coalition politics remains relatively unfamiliar to British politicians, despite the experience of the past five years. Throughout the election campaign, the main party leaders have poured scorn on the idea of another coalition after May 7th, and have given the public little detail on their preferences for different potential coalition partners. In this post, Marie-Noelle Loewe points to evidence from across Europe that suggests there is little reason to expect future coalitions to lead to chaos, incoherence, or unpredictable decision making
This paper analyzes whether the formation of coalition governments pro-vides voters with information...
Advocates of proportional representation often claim that a reformed electoral system would eliminat...
The Westminster model is recognized the world over as delivering strong, stable one-party government...
The Conservative and Liberal Democrat government has already overturned decades of the conventional ...
The novelty of a peacetime coalition government in the UK has meant that most media commentators hav...
The British media, and Tory and Labour politicians, often treat a parliament with no overall majorit...
The UK has been governed by a Coalition, with relative stability, since the 2010 General Election wh...
My colleague Bart Cammaerts is a leading political communications analysis. He is also a Belgian who...
The UK’s first coalition government during peacetime since 1945 ended with the electoral decimation ...
The long periods between 1945 and 1970, and 1979 to 2010 proved that the British political system is...
The UK may be relatively unfamiliar with coalition governments, but they are very common in other pa...
On its own, the fact that the 2010 general election produced a coalition government does not tell us...
After the major defeats for the Liberal Democrats in the recent Council Elections and the AV referen...
"The British general election of May 2010 delivered the first coalition government since the Second ...
The failure of the May 2010 negotiations between the Liberal Democrats and Labour on forming an alte...
This paper analyzes whether the formation of coalition governments pro-vides voters with information...
Advocates of proportional representation often claim that a reformed electoral system would eliminat...
The Westminster model is recognized the world over as delivering strong, stable one-party government...
The Conservative and Liberal Democrat government has already overturned decades of the conventional ...
The novelty of a peacetime coalition government in the UK has meant that most media commentators hav...
The British media, and Tory and Labour politicians, often treat a parliament with no overall majorit...
The UK has been governed by a Coalition, with relative stability, since the 2010 General Election wh...
My colleague Bart Cammaerts is a leading political communications analysis. He is also a Belgian who...
The UK’s first coalition government during peacetime since 1945 ended with the electoral decimation ...
The long periods between 1945 and 1970, and 1979 to 2010 proved that the British political system is...
The UK may be relatively unfamiliar with coalition governments, but they are very common in other pa...
On its own, the fact that the 2010 general election produced a coalition government does not tell us...
After the major defeats for the Liberal Democrats in the recent Council Elections and the AV referen...
"The British general election of May 2010 delivered the first coalition government since the Second ...
The failure of the May 2010 negotiations between the Liberal Democrats and Labour on forming an alte...
This paper analyzes whether the formation of coalition governments pro-vides voters with information...
Advocates of proportional representation often claim that a reformed electoral system would eliminat...
The Westminster model is recognized the world over as delivering strong, stable one-party government...