Choice and credible opposition are essential attributes of established representative democracies. There is academic debate on the extent to which the relationship between opposition and governing parties has become ‘blurred’ in policymaking and …
For voters to have a meaningful choice at elections, opposition parties should behave distinctively different from governing parties in parliament. This paper examines the factors that determine whether opposition parties vote for or against the …
There are concerns about the distinctiveness of opposition party behaviour in legislatures, but the literature offers mixed findings. This paper contributes to this debate by analysing government-opposition distinctiveness in four parliamentary …
This extended research proposal was presented at Politicologenetmaal Workshop 2021 - Volatility and Polarization in the Low Countries. The paper is divided into four parts. It proceeds as follows – 1) introduction; 2) justification of the research …