Coalition government and party mandate: explaining ministerial room of manoeuvre vis-à-vis the coalition agreement
In this article, I look at the dialectic between parties and government to understand the extent to which ministers are bound by the coalition agreement. I first observe that considering the coalition agreement as a contract written by the parties for the government to avoid “agency losses” is an ov...
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| Format: | article |
| Language: | eng |
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0873-65292009000100007 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:scielo:S0873-65292009000100007 |