Publication
Reaching Across the Aisle: Explaining Government–Opposition Voting in Parliament
How to explain variation in the extent to which parliamentary voting behaviour follows the government–opposition divide?
- Author
- Tom Louwerse, Simon Otjes, David M. Willumsen & Patrick Öhberg
- Date
- 27 January 2016
- Links
- Party Politics
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Tom Louwerse (Leiden University), Simon Otjes (Groningen University), David M. Willumsen (University of Munich), and Patrick Öhberg (University of Gothenburg) look at three factors explaining levels of government–opposition voting: the majority status of cabinets, cabinet ideology, and norms about cabinet formation. The article examines two cases: the Netherlands and Sweden.