Divisions and Duration: The Relationship between Party System Polarization and the Length of Government Formation

• In Event: Polarization in European Politics

Brief Overview

We argue that there is an inverse relationship between party system polarization and government formation duration: as party system polarization increases, the length of time between the election and the start of the new government decreases.

Authors

• Jae-Jae Spoon, University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus

• Heike Klüver, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin