Why Minority Governments Work

This book is an examination of minority government performance in conjunction with the territorial distribution of state power and the territorial interests of political parties. It examines political institutions, and the reconcilability of party goals and the contingent bargaining circumstances, in multilevel and territorial perspectives.

1 Introduction
Part I The Theoretical and Contextual Terrain
2 How Well Minority Parliamentary Governments Govern
3 Accounting for Governing Capacity
4 Multilevel, Multidimensional Politics in Spain
Part II Why Spain' s Minority Governments Work
5 Governing Capacity and Partisan Bargaining Circumstances
6 How Minority Governments Govern
7 National Parliamentary Institutions and Government Strength
8 The Reconcilability of Party Goals in the Multilevel State
9 Office for Policy in the National Arena or Peix al cove
10 Multilevel Exchange of Office or Pactos de estado
11 Party Competition in the Regional Arena and National-Level Alliances
Part III Conclusions
12 Minority Government Performance and Comparative Lessons