Governmental Politics in Consensus Democracies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12577089 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Klaus Brummer (0000-0001-9240-646X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 272-292 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-0826 • E-ISSN: 1469-798X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13600826.2016.1266995 |
| OpenAlex | W2571348599 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This contribution to the special issue on “The Boundedness of American FPA Theory” examines the scope of the Governmental Politics Model (GPM). Proponents of the GPM, which has been predominantly used in the context of the US system, claim that it is also applicable beyond the majoritarian democracies of North America. Taking up this claim, this article conducts a systematic analysis of the interconnection between consensus democracies and the emergence of governmental politics. It argues that certain features of consensus democracies—that is, the formation of coalition governments and the relative weakness of the head of government—are particularly conducive for the emergence of competing policy preferences between members of government and the ensuing bargaining processes among them, which in turn represent the very core of the GPM. This theoretical argument is illustrated by the decision of the German government to deploy armed forces to the European Union-led anti-piracy operation “Atalanta” off the coast of Somalia
Argument (complex analysis · Context (archaeology · German · Government (linguistics · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scope (computer science · Sociology · International Development and Aid · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2022 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |