Is the Grass Really Greener?; The Rationale and Reality of Support Party Status: A New Zealand Case Study  

Oleh:

Bale, Tim ; Dann, Christine

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Party Politics vol. 8 no. 3 (May 2002), page 349–365.
Topik: coalition  Green  minority government  New Zealand  support party
Fulltext: 349PP83.pdf (67.79KB)

Isi artikel

The motives, behaviour, treatment and fate of parties which, rather than joining governments provide them with a working legislative majority, are not well studied. In the light of coalition theory, we explore these issues by way of observation research on New Zealand’s Green Party – since 1999 a support party to a minority centre–left government. We isolate three factors important in coming to this type of arrangement – ideology, calculation and the institutional environment – all mediated by party system variation. The relative importance of each factor, however, is less significant than the links and trade-offs between and within them. We go on to show how non-institutionalized support arrangements are unlikely to be ‘win-win’ situations, leading to frustrations which themselves may become a factor in the decision to support or join after the next election.

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