Why do coalition parties settle some policy issues in great detail, whereas other issues are
hardly mentioned in coalition agreements? Coalition agreements are important policy …

In parliamentary democracies, elections distribute the seats in parliament, but who gets into
government and determines the policy agenda over the course of the legislative term is …

Why do some coalition cabinets terminate early and others run until the end of the legislative
term? This article analyses whether coalition agreements lower the risk of early government …

One of the biggest challenges parties in multiparty governments face is making policies
together and overcoming the risk of a policy stalemate. Scholars have devoted much …

In der vergleichenden Regierungslehre wird die „föderale Demokratie “nicht als
eigenständiger Typus betrachtet. Daher blieb auch das Verhältnis von Föderalismus und …

How does ministries' capacity to draft legislation affect the political output of modern
governments? This article combines a novel dataset describing the capacity of ministerial …

The birth of the yellow-green 'government of change'− formed by the Five-star Movement
(M5 s) and the League in 2018− was a significant novelty in Italian politics. Concerns about …

Does federalism fuel tensions in divided states? This paper addresses this question from a
power-sharing angle. It provides a longitudinal analysis of the evolution of ethno-territorial …

Some words about the context, personal and political, in which this book came to be written
will help to make clear how it came to fruition, as well as the assumptions underlying and …

While coalition agreements are significant in structuring government behaviour, their
comprehensiveness varies considerably across cabinets. We argue that the average …