Government-Opposition Relations and the Vote of No-Confidence
POLITICAL STUDIES(2023)
摘要
The vote of no-confidence is the primary mechanism through which the principle of government accountability to the legislature - the defining feature of parliamentary democracy - is achieved. Yet, no research has been devoted to its influence on the relations between the government and the mechanism's main users - the opposition. This article attempts to fill this lacuna by theorising how restrictiveness in the vote of no-confidence influences the opposition's strategies vis-a-vis the government in legislative voting. We delineate the influence of the vote of no-confidence on the opposition via its preference to pursue more cooperative strategies, as opposed to conflictual ones, distinguishing between the two stages of the vote of no-confidence - initiating and voting. We empirically explore the relation between the vote of no-confidence and the voting behaviour of 59 opposition parties in 16 countries, showing that greater restrictions on both stages of the vote of no-confidence correlate with less conflictual opposition behaviour.
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government, opposition, no-confidence, parliament, conflict
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