The features of minority governments through the prism of party systems of the European parliamentary democracies.

AUTHOR:
Nadia Panchak-Białobłocka

ABSTRACT:
The article is dedicated to analyzing the peculiarities of minority governments through the prism of the party systems of the European parliamentary democracies. The researcher noted that it is exactly the characteristics of party systems in the vast majority of the European parliamentary democracies that are decisive factors that influence the government-formation process and the functioning and accountability of governments, including minority governments. It was determined that of all the characteristics of party systems that influence the structuring of minority governments in parliamentary democracies, it is advisable to distinguish between different quantitative and ideological dimensions of explanations. The author found that it is the quantitative and ideological determinants that influence the particularities of the formation, functioning and responsibility of minority governments, in particular at the example of the European parliamentary democracies.

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