Regierungswechsel und Strukturwandel des Parteiensystems in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Stöss, Richard

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“…The Allied powers did not allow national elections until 1949. Many state elections had occurred by then, and many had produced GCs, often in oversized ‘renovative’ coalitions that included nearly every party in the state parliament (Haas 2007; Stöss 2001). Yet both the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) ruled out a federal grand coalition in advance of the 1949 elections.…”

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“…Meanwhile, in part because both the usual 'office seeking' and 'policy seeking' hypotheses do a poor job explaining German grand coalitions (Spier 2013), a German-language literature has addressed grand coalitions focused primarily on the German and/or Austrian cases (Haas 2007;Stöss 2001).…”

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“…The coalition-formation literature takes little note of grand coalitions, usually preferring to see them mostly as a subset of ‘minimal winning coalitions’ that include any party (large or small) whose exclusion would cause the government’s parliamentary support to drop below 50 per cent (Miller and Müller 2010: 332; Müller 2008). Meanwhile, in part because both the usual ‘office seeking’ and ‘policy seeking’ hypotheses do a poor job explaining German grand coalitions (Spier 2013), a German-language literature has addressed grand coalitions focused primarily on the German and/or Austrian cases (Haas 2007; Stöss 2001).…”

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Grand Coalitions and Democratic Dysfunction: Two Warnings from Central Europe

Jacoby¹

2017

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Are 'grand coalitions' -coalitions that include the two largest parties in a parliamentary system -good or bad for democracy? This article analyses that question in light of the recent rise of populist parties that large mainstream parties may try to exclude from government by forming grand coalitions with other large mainstream parties. I call this the 'sterilization' logic and note that mainstream parties' ability to do this varies widely. Where parties have previously used grand coalitions primarily according to a 'clientelistic' logic -for example, Austriamainstream parties may well be unable to rally the party system against insurgent populist challengers. Where mainstream parties have used grand coalitions exceptionally and for major institutional 'renovations' -for example, Germany -the grand coalition remains a viable option for responding to insurgent challenges, though this strategy is also quite risky. This article considers the implications for democracy by tracing recent developments in the context of the euro crisis and the European refugee situation. The major empirical referents are Austria and Germany -two countries with extensive experience and literature about grand coalitions -but the article draws out the implications of the analysis for other European parliamentary contexts.

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