(iPoster) Durability of Governments in Parliamentary Democracies

• In Event: Poster Session: Posters on European Politics, Advanced Industrial Societies, & Post-Soviet Politics
  In Poster Session: Poster Session: Advanced Industrial Societies

Abstract

Based on Maeda and Nishikawa’s (2006) finding that presidential and parliamentary systems exhibit distinct patterns in the durability of party control, this study focuses on parliamentary systems and analyzes the factors influencing how long a party or a coalition stays in power. Using the V-Dem dataset, various explanations--ranging from electoral systems to the largest opposition party’s ideological position--are empirically evaluated.

Author

• Ko Maeda, University of North Texas