CPO-2002 Lecture 54: Lecture 54
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Preelectoral coalitions can alleviate this problem by allowing voters to identify government alternatives at election time. As a result, electoral coalitions may increase democratic transparency and provide coalition governments with increased legitimacy and stronger policy mandates. Party leaders in the netherlands, ireland, and germany often make this argument when explaining their participation in electoral coalitions. The government formation process is quite complicated parties have to bargain over policy and office. As a result, it can take a long time for a government to form. On average, it takes about 29. 9 days for a government to form in western europe. Longest delay in forming a government: 208 days in the netherlands. It takes about 85. 7 days on average for the dutch government to form. It took 540 days to form a government following the belgian elections in 2010! Governments can end for two types of reasons.
