The Impact of Government Participation and Prospects on Party Policy Preferences in Belgium

Dandoy, Régis

doi:10.1017/gov.2013.38

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“…Like recent findings related to manifesto construction and government participation (e.g. Dandoy, 2014), these results help connect studies of parliamentary behavior to research on election strategy, policy agendas, and coalition negotiations. The evidence is consistent with an explanation in which parties’ priorities for policy on issues work in tandem with ideological disagreement to determine a range of outcomes.…”

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confidence: 76%

“…Issue salience directs a range of political outcomes: parties selectively campaign on issues to attract votes (Petrocik, 1996; De Vries and Hobolt, 2012), coalition negotiations for ministries depend on parties’ preferences for specific topics (Bäck et al ., 2011; Dandoy, 2014; Falcó-Gimeno, 2014), and governments distribute public policies consistent with their expressed issue priorities (Bevan et al ., 2011). Parties prioritize important issues by dedicating their resources to them in government.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Working through the issues: how issue diversity and ideological disagreement influence coalition duration

Greene

2016

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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Issue salience and diversity direct a range of outcomes such as voting behavior and public policy. Studies, however, have yet to fully integrate theoretical or empirical expectations for the effect of issue salience on coalition stability. By focusing on the mechanism linking parties' preferences to policy-making, I propose that parties with more diverse platforms provide coalitions greater room to negotiate, whereas parties focusing on a small number of issues exacerbate ideological tensions. Issue diversity becomes important once parties exhaust opportunities to make the initial, easy policy compromises. Using evidence from 299 coalitions in 24 European countries, I find that issue diversity in parties' platforms moderates the effect of disagreement. Using a nonproportional hazard analysis, I find that the effect of issue diversity varies over the coalition's lifecycle. Governments with parties willing to negotiate over a larger range of issues decrease the risk that disagreements will result in coalition termination.

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confidence: 76%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Working through the issues: how issue diversity and ideological disagreement influence coalition duration

Greene

2016

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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“…This by itself renders Belgium an interesting case for a comparison between a system with protest parties (the Dutch-language party system) and a system without protest parties (the French-language party system). If protest parties indeed ‘fuel’ discontent, as van der Brug (2003) has argued, this effect should be present only in the Dutch-language region (Dandoy 2014).…”

Section: Political Trust and Vote Choicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…If citizens can express their distrust in the voting booth, it might restore their faith in the electoral process. If the protest party is successful, it might even moderate its party programme and join a new governing coalition (Dandoy 2014). A third, and opposite, claim is that protest parties can act to ‘fuel’ political discontent.…”

Section: Political Trust and Vote Choicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Spiral of Distrust: A Panel Study on the Relation between Political Distrust and Protest Voting in Belgium

Hooghe¹,

Dassonneville²

2016

Gov. & oppos.

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Low levels of political trust are associated with a preference for protest parties. Some authors have argued that in this manner protest parties indirectly contribute to the stability of electoral democracy, functioning as a ‘safety valve’ for political discontent. In this article, we investigate the relationship between protest voting and political trust in a dynamic perspective, relying on a five-year Belgian panel study. We confirm that citizens with low levels of political trust are more likely to vote for protest parties. Additionally, we point out that decreasing levels of trust significantly increase the probability of voting for a protest party, even controlling for absolute levels of trust. Most importantly, having voted for a protest party in 2009 is linked to a subsequent further drop in political trust during the 2009–14 observation period. The panel analysis suggests that distrust and protest voting reinforce one another, leading to a potential spiral of distrust.

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“…Parties that cross the threshold of government implement their ideas into reality and have impact on the lives of their citizens (Dandoy 2014, 629). Ministerial portfolio allocation plays a key role at the end of the coalition formation process: portfolios constitute one of the clearest manifestations of (policy) payoffs.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Regionalist Parties in Central Government: A Shift in Ministerial Portfolio Preferences?

Terriere

Bouteca

2021

Nationalities Papers

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This article takes a closer look at the ministerial representation of peripheral elites in central state institutions. We assess the ministerial portfolios that regionalist parties hold once they enter national government. We use a novel dataset that consists of a large sample of ministerial posts (N=1880) allocated to regionalist parties across Western multilevel democracies throughout the post–World War II period. An empirical analysis shows that regionalist parties control a disproportionately high share of the minister posts, a proportionate share of the policy domains, and a disproportionately low share of the key leadership positions in national cabinets. They have a distinctive preference to hold territorial and institutional (that is, decentralization) responsibilities in their ministerial portfolios. In contrast, concerning secondary policy domains (social-economic and culture-identity) they appear to be highly flexible. Ministerial appointments are an important gateway for peripheral elites to get access to central state institutions. It is also one of the clearest manifestations of (policy) payoffs: portfolios are meaningful tools to defend the interests of a territorial subgroup. Yet, there is no straight line from portfolio distribution to policy outcomes at the end of a legislative term. Resolving this broader question of a party’s influence on public policy requires continued research.

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The Impact of Government Participation and Prospects on Party Policy Preferences in Belgium

Cited by 8 publications

References 41 publications

Working through the issues: how issue diversity and ideological disagreement influence coalition duration

Working through the issues: how issue diversity and ideological disagreement influence coalition duration

A Spiral of Distrust: A Panel Study on the Relation between Political Distrust and Protest Voting in Belgium

Regionalist Parties in Central Government: A Shift in Ministerial Portfolio Preferences?

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