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Allen, Christopher. "Forming Left Wing Coalition Governments? Sweden and Germany in the early 21st Century" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott, Loews Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 31, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p152292_index.html>

Allen, C. S. , 2006-08-31 "Forming Left Wing Coalition Governments? Sweden and Germany in the early 21st Century" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott, Loews Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p152292_index.html

Publication Type: Proceeding Abstract: Strom, Laver, Warwick, Richter, Franklin and Mackie, among others, have analyzed the complicated, and sometimes arcane, procedures for coalition formation in developed democracies. In multiparty democracies, various "families" of parties seem most likely to form governments; whether a leftist, centrist, or right wing coalition, some coalitions seem more intuitive than others. And some coalitions that one would expect to see never materialize. Why? Since the mid-1990s, Sweden has been governed by a minority Social Democratic Party (SAP, the Swedish acronym) government which has included support from the Greens and the former Communist Left Party. Yet a similar left wing coalition/alliance was rejected out of hand after the September 2005 election in Germany, not only by the parties of the right (as would be expected) but also by all of the parties of the left (SPD, Greens AND the new Left Party). The paper will compare these two cases to investigate whether we can find any generalizable properties that enable or discourage the formation of left wing coalitions in developed democracies.

Professionalization in Political Online Communication? German Party Web Sites in the 2002 and 2005 National Elections

Voting Determinants in Post-Communist Democracies: Party Identification and Leader Effects in the 2005 Albanian Parliamentary Election

Portuguese Party Politics and Local Government Coalition Formation

Social Structure, Collective Identity, and Agency in the Formation of a New Cultural Divide: Why a Right-Wing Populist Party Emerged in France but Not in Germany