Grand Coalition


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Unlock the political strategies behind "Grand Coalition." This book explores how major parties join forces to create stable governments, highlighting their global influence. It is a must-read for professionals, students, and political enthusiasts. With insights into how grand coalitions function and their lasting impact, this volume offers an essential resource for understanding coalition politics worldwide. Chapters Brief Overview 1: Introduction to grand coalitions and their role in ensuring stable governance. 2: Examines coalition governments, their advantages, and challenges. 3: Focuses on Italy’s experience with grand coalitions in politics. 4: Explores red-green alliances and their influence on governance. 5: Analyzes the role of Democrats 66 in Dutch political coalitions. 6: Discusses Norway's political parties and their coalition involvement. 7: Examines the role of Spain's Socialist Workers' Party in coalitions. 8: Understands Denmark's Prime Minister's role in grand coalitions. 9: Explores Social Democrats' role in Danish political coalitions. 10: Analyzes Spain's People's Party in shaping political outcomes. 11: Investigates the Social Democrats in Slovenia’s grand coalitions. 12: Learn about CDS – People's Party's coalition strategies in Portugal. 13: Reviews Spain’s political history post-1975, including coalitions. 14: Analyzes Isamaa's strategies in Estonia's coalition governments. 15: Reviews the 2015 Croatian election and its coalition impact. 16: Explores centrism’s role in forming effective grand coalitions. 17: Discusses the 2017 Norwegian election and its coalition dynamics. 18: Examines Italy’s centre-left coalition and its political effect. 19: Reviews left-wing politics in Croatia and coalition influences. 20: Investigates the 2016 Croatian election's impact on coalitions. 21: Explores the concept of the cordon sanitaire in coalition politics. "Grand Coalition" provides a thorough exploration of coalition politics, delivering valuable insights into the dynamics of party collaboration. This book equips readers with a deep understanding of how grand coalitions shape political landscapes. Whether you're a political expert or a curious reader, this comprehensive guide adds rich value to any collection focused on governance and political strategy.




The German Election of 2005


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The election of 2005 changed Germany’s political ‘landscape’. The combined share of the vote gained by the two major parties fell below 70 per cent, eliminating the option of a coalition between one of the two major parties (Christian Democrats and Social Democrats) with one of the smaller parties – the traditional pattern of government that had dominated German post-war politics since the late 1950s. The election resulted in the first national ‘Grand Coalition’ of the two major parties since 1969. While some have seen this government, elected in November 2005 and headed by the Christian Democrat Angela Merkel, as the symptom of a crisis of the traditional post-war German party system, others have highlighted the opportunities it opens up for constitutional and policy reform as Merkel’s ‘Grand Coalition’ controls an overwhelming majority of the votes in both houses of the German legislature. The German Election of 2005 analyses the road to the 2005 election and provide in-depth studies of the campaign and candidates, of voting behaviour and immediate consequences of the election, with contributions from leading experts from Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. The findings are informed by theoretical and empirical work in the comparative study of parties and elections offering a nuanced, empirically rich picture of continuity and change in German electoral politics.




Grand Strategy and Military Alliances


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A broad-ranging study of the relationship between alliances and the conduct of grand strategy, examined through historical case studies.




Theories of Coalition Formation


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First published in 1984. In this book, the authors set forth the central ideas and results of the major theories of coalition forming behavior. These theories address situations of partial conflict of interest with the following aspects: (1) there are three or more players, (2) players may openly communicate with each other, and (3) players form coalitions by freely negotiating agreements on how to disburse the gains that result from the coalition members’ joint coordinated efforts. These models arise from the two disciplines of mathematics, in the theory of cooperative n-person games with side payments, and social psychology, in theories of small group behavior in mixed-motive situations. The goal is to explore the various solution concepts that make up this body of theory, and in particular to examine the psychological premises that underlie the various theoretical models.




The Origins of the Grand Alliance


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This “uncommonly astute study” examines the early development of the US-UK military alliance that would eventually lead to victory in WWII (Paul Miles, author of FDR’s Admiral). On December 12, 1937, Japanese aircraft sank the American gunboat Panay outside Nanjing, China. Although the Japanese apologized, President Roosevelt set Captain Royal Ingersoll to London to begin conversations with the British admiralty about Japanese aggression in the Far East. While few Americans remember the Panay Incident, it was the start of what would become the “Special Relationship” between the United States and Great Britain. In The Origins of the Grand Alliance, William T. Johnsen provides the first comprehensive analysis of Anglo-American military collaboration before the Second World War. He sets the stage by examining Anglo-French and Anglo-American coalition military planning from 1900 through World War I and the interwar years. Johnsen also considers the formulation of policy and grand strategy, operational planning, and the creation of the command structure and channels of communication. He addresses vitally important logistical and materiel issues, particularly the difficulties of war production. Drawn from extensive sources and private papers held in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States, Johnsen’s exhaustively researched study casts new light on the twentieth century’s most significant alliance.




A Game-Theoretic Perspective on Coalition Formation


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Drawing upon and extending his inaugural Lipsey Lectures, Debraj Ray looks at coalition formation from the perspective of game theory. Ray brings together developments in both cooperative and noncooperative game theory to study the analytics of coalition formation and binding agreements.




Between Left and Right


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Germany remains a leader in Europe, as demonstrated by its influential role in the on-going policy challenges in response to the post 2008 financial and economic crises. Rarely does the composition of a national government matter as much as Germany’s did following the 2009 Bundestag election. This volume, which brings together established and up-and coming academics from both sides of the Atlantic, delves into the dynamics and consequences surrounding this fateful election: How successful was Chancellor Angela Merkel’s leadership of the Grand Coalition and what does her new partnership with the Free Democrats auger? In the face economic crisis, why did German voters empower a center-right market-liberal coalition? Why did the SPD, one of the oldest and most distinguished parties in the world self-destruct and what are the chances that it will recover? The chapters go beyond the contemporary situation and provide deeper analyses of the long-term decline of the catchall parties, structural changes in the party system, electoral behavior, the evolution of perceptions of gender in campaigns, and the use of new social media in German politics.




Encyclopedia of Power


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Collects 381 entries that discuss political science, international relations, and sociology.




Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 2009


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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 34th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, MFCS 2009, held in Novy Smokovec, High Tatras, Slovakia, in August 2009. The 56 revised full papers presented together with 7 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 148 submissions. All current aspects in theoretical computer science and its mathematical foundations are addressed, including algorithmic game theory, algorithmic tearning theory, algorithms and data structures, automata, grammars and formal languages, bioinformatics, complexity, computational geometry, computer-assisted reasoning, concurrency theory, cryptography and security, databases and knowledge-based systems, formal specifications and program development, foundations of computing, logic in computer science, mobile computing, models of computation, networks, parallel and distributed computing, quantum computing, semantics and verification of programs, theoretical issues in artificial intelligence.




Christian Democracy in Western Germany (RLE: German Politics)


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This important study analyses the developoment of the CDU/CSU as a political force in West Germany from the Second World War to the late 1970s, with special reference to its role both in Government (1949-69) and Opposition (1969-76) and considers how it was instrumental in the formulation of governmental policies. The first part of the book looks at the development of the CDU/CSU. The second part focuses on its composition and structure and considers such aspects as its organisation, membership, auxiliary organisations and electoral appeal and campaigns. A separate chapter deals with the CSU’s relationship with the CDU, its leadership and its organisation.