POL289 Coalition governance in Europe

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Vlastimil Havlík, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Vlastimil Havlík, Ph.D.
Division of Politology – Department of Political Science – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Mgr. Lucie Pospíšilová
Timetable
Thu 12:00–13:30 U41
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 9 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The main objective of the course is to introduce basic aspects of governance and governments in selected European countries after 1945, or in the case of post-communist countries after 1989. As the basic theoretical framework will be used the politological theory of coalitions.
Syllabus
  • Organization of the course
  • Theory of coalitions I.
  • Theory of coalitions II.
  • Minority governments (Denmark, Norway)
  • Oversized governments (Finland)
  • Government stability (Germany)
  • Grand coalitions? (Austria)
  • Government instability (Italia)
  • Coalition governance in segmented societies (Belgium)
  • Governance in semi-prezidentialism (France)
  • Post-communist instability (Poland)
  • Non-consolidated democracy (Slovakia)
  • The Czech Republic I.
  • The Czech Republic II.
Literature
  • HAVLÍK, Vlastimil. Menšinová stabilita: vlády a vládnutí v Norsku v letech 1945-2005 (Minority stability: governments and governance in Norway in the period of 1945-2005). In CABADA, Ladislav. Koalice a koaliční vztahy. Plzeň: Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, s.r.o., 2006, p. 136-150. mimo edice. ISBN 80-7325-108-6. info
  • BALÍK, Stanislav. Typologie exekutivních koalic v českém prostředí (Typology of the Executive Coalitions in the Czech Politics). In CABADA, Ladislav. Koalice a koaliční vztahy. Česká republika v evropském kontextu. 1st ed. Plzeň: Aleš Čeněk, 2006, p. 53-67. mimo edice. ISBN 80-7380-004-7. info
  • GALLAGHER, Michael, Michael LAVER and Peter MAIR. Representative government in modern Europe. 3rd ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2001, xii, 468. ISBN 0071180958. info
  • LAVER, Michael and Norman SCHOFIELD. Multiparty government : the politics of coalition in Europe. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998, xvii, 308. ISBN 047208562X. URL info
  • LAVER, Michael and Kenneth A. SHEPSLE. Making and breaking governments : cabinets and legislatures in parliamentary democracies. 1st ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, xi, 301. ISBN 0521438365. info
Assessment methods
Seminary work and writing examination.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2009, recent)
  • Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/course/fss/spring2009/POL289