Outside the Government: Why Ethnic Parties Fail to Join the Post-Communist Cabinets

Sergiu Gherghina () and George Jiglău
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Sergiu Gherghina: Institute of Political Science, Goethe University Frankfurt

No 335, Working Papers from Leibniz Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (Institute for East and Southeast European Studies)

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.

Keywords: ethnic parties; government coalitions; organizational change; post-communism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 D74 D79 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27
Date: 2013-11
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