Code
01N01110
Duration
01 February 2010 → 28 February 2015
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Social sciences
- Other economics and business
- Citizenship, immigration and political inequality
- International and comparative politics
- Multilevel governance
- National politics
- Political behaviour
- Political organisations and institutions
- Political theory and methodology
- Public administration
- Other political science
Keywords
local elections
local politics
coalition formation
Project description
This project scrutinizes the choice of partners to form a governmental coalition at the local level. It combines a quantitative approach testing the validity of hypotheses of the rational school of coalition formation (assuming the decisive importance of size and policy) with a qualitative counterpart drawing on insights of the inductive school (that refers to the importance of motivation, history and institutions).