While the research on minority governments varies, in general it has moved from viewing minority governments as peculiar and potentially problematic toward seeing them as rational cabinet solutions capable of effective governance. When no single political party secures a majority of seats in a parliamentary election, three outcomes are possible: a failed attempt to form a government possibly leading to a new general election , a minority government, or a majority coalition government.
While much research on minority governments is embedded within the larger government formation literature focused more on coalition formation , influential research on minority governments has attempted to answer three fundamental, and ultimately interrelated, questions: Why do minority governments form? How do minority governments work? How do minority governments perform relative to majority governments?
Book-length studies that seek to extend or deepen the analysis of the formation of minority governments include Bergman on the Swedish case , Nikolenyi on the Indian case , and Keudel-Kaiser on eight central and eastern Europe countries.
Most governments spend longer governing than being formed or dissolved. Surprisingly then, research long focused on why minority governments form and not on how they work and perform once in office. Today, however, there is a larger body of research addressing how minority governments work and how well they perform. An important contribution in this regard is Field , a book-length study of why minority governments work in Spain.
It offers a framework for explaining government performance that includes political institutions, partisan bargaining circumstances, and party goals. This study explores the goals of parties with regard to government formation, and how these goals interact with constitutional structures and political culture to shape minority government formation in Sweden. Field, Bonnie N. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, This book explores how and how well minority governments work.
Territorial politics and the presence of regional parties in the national parliament interact with political institutions and party goals to allow otherwise competitive parties to cooperate during minority governments. It also provides a review of the literature on minority government performance.
Opposition parties will try to embarrass the government at every opportunity, and there will be a steady diet of drama and controversy for the media to report. The only thing that will truly unify the parties is fear of an election that could cost them seats and money. Canadians may be in for a rough political ride, but sometimes good things happen when political parties are forced to collaborate.
Proponents of minority governments look fondly at the s when Lester B. Pearson won back-to-back minorities that forced deal-brokering with the New Democratic Party.
That era was the bedrock of the Canadian social safety net, with the Pearson Liberals advancing national medicare, Canada student loans and the Canada Pension Program. People forget, or may not know, that opposition parties lobbed countless accusations of political wrongdoing and mismanagement, or that the news was filled with stories of controversy and chaos. The debate over creating the Canadian Maple Leaf flag was especially divisive. Yet half a century later, the disagreements are largely forgotten, and most Canadians are rightly proud of those programs and their flag.
A minority government tends to be much less stable than a majority government because if they can unite for the purpose, opposing parliamentary members have the numbers to vote against the legislation, or even bring down the government with a vote of no confidence. A minority government or a minority cabinet is a cabinet of a parliamentary system formed when a political party or coalition of parties does not have a majority of overall seats in the parliament but is sworn into government to break a Hung Parliament election result.
It is also known as a minority parliament. In bicameral parliaments, the term relates to the situation in the chamber whose confidence is considered most crucial. In general, a minority government tends to be less stable than a majority government, because the opposition can always bring down the government with a simple vote of no confidence.
The numerical value of minority government in Chaldean Numerology is: 8. The numerical value of minority government in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4. If they try to stagger through with a messy and unstable minority government instead of putting the country first then they will risk all the hard work and sacrifices people have made over the last five years, the last thing Britain needs is a second election before Christmas.
But that is exactly what will happen if Labour leader Ed Miliband and David Cameron put their own political interest ahead of the national interest. If Kukiz decides otherwise, then we'd have to bet on a scenario of a minority government. If it turned out that we are a few seats short of a majority , I would prefer a stable cooperation, and the first natural partner is Mr Kukiz, if Kukiz decides otherwise, then we'd have to bet on a scenario of a minority government.
There are two options: a strong government built on consensus or a minority government of the party with the most votes. Teneo Intelligence analyst Antonio Barroso :. Even if the motion succeeds, it is unlikely that a Socialist minority government would fundamentally challenge European Union fiscal rules or negotiate controversial measures such as a self-determination referendum for Catalonia.
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It's not purely theoretical, though: Canadian political history includes multiple examples of our democratic system operating without a majority government. Last fall, in New Brunswick, the province's incumbent Liberals won 21 seats — one fewer than the Progressive Conservatives and four short of a majority. Brian Gallant's government tried to carry on, but it was defeated in the legislature by a vote of A PC government led by Blaine Higgs was then sworn in.
Christy Clark, the incumbent Liberal premier, tried to govern, but the New Democrats and Greens came to an agreement under which three Green MLAs would support an NDP government that was committed to pursuing a shared list of priorities. After the Liberal government was defeated in the legislature, Clark visited the province's lieutenant-governor and asked for a new election. In Saskatchewan in , the governing New Democrats won 29 seats, one short of a majority.
In , Saskatchewan's incumbent Liberals won 28 seats, four short of a majority. Premier James Gardiner met the legislature, but was defeated and replaced by a coalition of Conservatives, Progressives and Independents. In many cases, a party that does not have a majority of seats will come to a formal agreement of some kind with another party — either a coalition arrangement or what's known as a "confidence-and-supply" agreement.
In a coalition, two or more parties share the responsibility of governing, with each party represented in cabinet. In a confidence-and-supply agreement, a smaller party agrees to support a government usually for a set period of time in exchange for the government's commitment to pursuing a shared list of priorities or policies. But such an arrangement isn't always necessary.
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