Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/106620 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
IOS Working Papers No. 335
Publisher: 
Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS), Regensburg
Abstract: 
This article seeks to identify the causes impeding the ethnic parties to participate in the post-communist coalition governments. We conduct a cross-national and longitudinal analysis in which we take into account all the elections in which the ethnic parties gained parliamentary representation. With 44 cases over two decades - the party in election is the unit of analysis - and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) as method of analysis, this study bears theoretical and empirical implications. The key findings illustrate that leadership stability (or rigidity) and the involvement in particular issues of representation can drive the ethnic parties out of government. This combined effect prevails against other factors such as the pivotal role, splits or mergers, electoral strategies (alliances or radical discourses), or incumbency.
Subjects: 
ethnic parties
government coalitions
organizational change
post-communism
JEL: 
D72
D74
D79
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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