3. Theories of government formation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. List of tables 9
4. List of figures 15
5. List of parties and electoral alliances 17
6. Acknowledgements 21
7. 1. Introduction 23
8. 2. Radical right parties in the post-Communist party systems of Central and Eastern Europe 37
9. 3. Theories of government formation 59
10. 4. A case-based, configurational, and time-sensitive research design for studying government formation with radical right parties 79
11. 5. Government formation with radical right parties in Central Europe: The Visegrad Four 107
12. 6. Government formation and the radical right in Northeastern and Southeastern Europe: The Baltics and the Balkans 153
13. 7. Calibration: Preparing the data for the crossnational analysis 197
14. 8. Government formation with radical right parties in the nascent post-Communist party systems 215
15. 9. Government formation with radical right parties in the consolidating democracies of Central and Eastern Europe 239
16. 10. Conclusions 283
17. References 293
18. Appendices 321