Parliaments and Government Termination

Auteur

Reuven Y. Hazan is Professor and Chair in Israeli Politics and Democracy in the Department of Political Science at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Bjørn Erik Rasch is Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Texte du rabat

This book assesses the larger influences that government termination by parliaments has on executive-legislative relations, claiming that the way in which the governments may be challenged or dismissed has far greater impact than previously understood. The chapters in this book were originally published in West European Politics.

Contenu

1. Parliaments and government termination: understanding the confidence relationship 2. Constitutional parliamentarism in Europe, 1800-2019 3. The vote of no confidence: towards a framework for analysis 4. Prime ministers, the vote of confidence and the management of coalition terminations between elections 5. Termination of parliamentary governments: revised definitions and implications 6. The effect of the constructive vote of no-confidence on government termination and government durability 7. Government termination in Europe: a sensitivity analysis 8. Party-system polarisation, legislative institutions and cabinet survival in 28 parliamentary democracies, 1945-2019 9. Government termination and anti-defection laws in parliamentary democracies 10. Government Selection and Executive Powers: Constitutional Design in Parliamentary Democracies