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| Author: | Clark, T.D. Jurgeleviciute, D. |
| Title: | "Keeping tabs" on coalition partners': A theoretically salient case study of Lithuanian coalitional governments |
| Journal: | Europe-Asia Studies
2008 : JUN, VOL. 60:4, p. 631-642 |
| Index terms: | government politics case studies Baltic countries Lithuania |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | A broad range of policy issues among coalition (henceforth as: cln./clns.) partners can get potentially abdicated by portfolio allocation. It has been recently addressed how parties in governing clns. 'keep tabs' on each other to avoid such abdication. There are two mechanisms identified: junior ministerial (as: j-m.) appointments and chairs of parliamentary oversight (here as: o-s.) committees. The former is argued to be the most common method for intra-coalitional o-s. in the Lithuanian parliament. A combination of the two seems to be applied for monitoring the activities of the most important ministries. It is presumed that dependence on j-m. o-s. is more likely among cln. partners in less institutionalised parliaments. |
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