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This article expands our current knowledge about ministerial selection in coalition
governments and analyses why ministerial candidates succeed in acquiring a cabinet …

Finland's modern, technologically advanced welfare state is, in fact, a fairly recent creation,
because the social changes that led to it occurred in Finland much later than elsewhere in …

One of the shortcomings of foreign policy role theory is its tendency to black-box the state.
Role theorists often assume a national role conception, without paying too much attention to …

In parliamentary democracies, elections distribute the seats in parliament, but who gets into
government and determines the policy agenda over the course of the legislative term is …

In parliamentary democracies, the transfer of power from one government to the next is
sometimes characterized by long periods of negotiations in which party leaders bargain over …

Portfolio allocation in presidential systems is a central tool that presidents use to deal with
changes in the political and economic environment. Yet, we still have much to learn about …

Which kind of decisions are passed by Cabinet in coalition governments? What motivates
ministerial action? How much leeway do coalition parties give their governmental …

The core feature of parliamentary democracy is government responsibility to the legislature.
The most important instrument by which parliament can express its lack of support for the …

In systems of proportional parliamentarism political parties play a double role. On the one
hand they make delegation and accountability work; on the other they add complexity to the …