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Who Makes a Compromise? Adopting Pledges in Czech Coalition Agreements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2020

Petra Vodová
Petra Vodová*
Affiliation:
University of Hradec Králové, Námestí svobody 331, Hradec Králové500 02, Czech Republic. Email: svacipe1@uhk.cz
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Abstract

Translating party pledges into coalition agreements is a crucial goal of after-election coalition negotiations. Full adoption is the best result for the bargaining party, while limited adoption is a kind of compromise forced by coalition partners, and non-adoption can be seen as a defeat. The question of what undermines the compromise and defeat in coalition agreements is, however, rarely answered. This article formulates hypotheses concerning the effect of consensual pledges among coalition parties, and party and voter-issue salience on parties’ ability to adopt their pledges and adopt them fully or partially. The effect of party level characteristics is considered. The analysis is provided on a new dataset of narrow Czech coalition party pledges in three governments established after elections in 2006, 2010 and 2013. Multinomial logit regression is used for the statistical analysis.

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European Review , Volume 28 , Issue 5 , October 2020 , pp. 728 - 743
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© Academia Europaea 2020

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