Voters, Responsibility Attribution and Support Parties in Parliamentary Democracies

Tromborg, Mathias Wessel; Stevenson, Randolph T.; Fortunato, David

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“…Where exactly a given support party is located depends on its degree of commitment to government policy and survival. One important difference between the Dutch and Danish cases, which Tromborg et al (2017) correctly point out, is the importance and formality of the support agreement. In the Netherlands, the PVV entered a support agreement in 2010, while the Danish minority governments usually rely on less formal support.…”

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“…Using observational survey data, they found that Danish voters can identify the parties, which serve as parliamentary support for the government, but they do not recognize their influence on policy making to the same extent as Dutch voters. On average, Dutch voters do not attribute significantly less influence to support parties than to junior coalition members, while Danish voters perceive support parties as having less influence that cabinet members and in some cases even less influence than other opposition parties (Tromborg et al, 2017).…”

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“…We still know too little about how voters perceive the role of external support parties and to what extent they hold external support parties responsible for policy outcomes. A recent study by Tromborg et al (2017) has greatly contributed to our understanding of how voters classify support parties. Using observational survey data, they found that Danish voters can identify the parties, which serve as parliamentary support for the government, but they do not recognize their influence on policy making to the same extent as Dutch voters.…”

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Between cabinet membership and opposition: Commitment and responsibility of support parties

Hjermitslev

2022

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Existing research suggests that government participation is crucial for how voters evaluate party performance and how they cast their votes. However, in real life the distinction between government and opposition is not as straight-forward as one would think. Minority governments often enjoy the legislative support of external support parties, which play an ambiguous role in politics: while they are formally part of the opposition, they are simultaneously committed to keeping the government in office and passing its bills. How do voters evaluate parties that support a minority government? Will they respond to different frames about the significance of the commitment that support parties have made to government policy and survival? In a survey experiment, I test whether framing a written agreement as effective will cause voters to attribute more or less responsibility to the support parties and find that they respond to different frames by altering their perceptions of the importance of the agreement, but not their responsibility attribution.

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Between cabinet membership and opposition: Commitment and responsibility of support parties

Hjermitslev

2022

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“…But can support parties really have their cake and eat it too? Tromborg et al (2019) found that the identities of support parties are well known. While some voters perceive support parties as a separate category when given the option, support parties are clearly tied to the government in the minds of voters.…”

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“…Additionally, one might question whether the average voter is even aware of the support parties. Tromborg et al (2019) found that approximately a third were not able to categorize the support parties as such when given the option. This points to considerable heterogeneity in what voters know about the policy influence of parties and the consequential large heterogeneity in their abilities to hold parties accountable.…”

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Punishing the pseudo‐opposition: Accountability under a minority government

HJERMITSLEV

2023

European J Political Res

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Minority governments often rely on the legislative support of parties, which play an ambiguous role in politics: while they are formally part of the opposition, they are simultaneously committed to keeping the government in office and passing its bills. Are these support parties protected from the electoral cost of governing or do voters recognize their responsibility for policy outcomes and hold them accountable? I hypothesize that voters who are dissatisfied with government performance will have less sympathy towards and will be less likely to vote for support parties. Using Comparative Study of Electoral Systems data, I find consistent support for both hypotheses. Voters seem to recognize the connection between support parties and the government and have both an affective and an electoral response to it. While voters dislike support parties more than junior members when they are dissatisfied with government performance, they punish the two types of parties similarly at elections. Support parties are thus in no way exempt from the accountability mechanisms.

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Flexibel, stabil und effektiv? Zum Stand der Forschung über Minderheitsregierungen

Thürk,

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2023

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ZusammenfassungMinderheitsregierungen stellen im internationalen Vergleich etwa ein Drittel aller Regierungen in etablierten parlamentarischen Demokratien dar. Insbesondere in den letzten beiden Jahrzehnten lässt sich international ein deutlicher Anstieg von Minderheitsregierungen feststellen. Während Minderheitsregierungen im deutschen Sprachraum oft kritisch betrachtet werden und üblicherweise nur als Notlösung in Ausnahmefällen gelten, sind sie in Skandinavien oder Neuseeland der reguläre Modus des Regierens. Im vorliegenden Literaturbericht wird der aktuelle Forschungsstand zum Regieren von Minderheitskabinetten sowohl auf nationaler als auch auf internationaler Ebene dargelegt. Zunächst wird erörtert, wie Minderheitsregierungen definiert werden und wo sie häufig anzutreffen sind. Anschließend beleuchtet der Bericht die Handlungskalküle von Parteien und erläutert, warum es für sie eine rationale Strategie sein kann, Minderheitsregierungen zu tolerieren, anstatt an der Regierung teilzunehmen. Weiterhin werden die institutionellen und situativen Bedingungen erläutert, unter denen die Bildung von Minderheitsregierungen wahrscheinlicher wird. Es werden auch die verschiedenen Möglichkeiten aufgezeigt, wie Minderheitsregierungen parlamentarische Mehrheiten für die Durchsetzung ihres Programms organisieren können. Abschließend wird die Performanz von Minderheitsregierungen diskutiert, wobei sowohl die Nachteile als auch die zahlreichen normativen Vorteile beleuchtet werden.

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Voters, Responsibility Attribution and Support Parties in Parliamentary Democracies

Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

Between cabinet membership and opposition: Commitment and responsibility of support parties

Between cabinet membership and opposition: Commitment and responsibility of support parties

Punishing the pseudo‐opposition: Accountability under a minority government

Flexibel, stabil und effektiv? Zum Stand der Forschung über Minderheitsregierungen

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