Ideologia, a może matematyka? Koalicje gabinetowe w Polsce w latach 1991-2015
Ideology or Mathematics? Cabinet Coalitions in Poland in 1991-2015

Summary/Abstract: In parliamentary democracies, the process of building a cabinet is the most important moment for the nature of future politics, and the formation of a coalition itself is one of the key moments in the political game. In this text, the study covered seven terms of the Sejm (the first elections in 1989 were not fully free), i.e., the cabinets formulated between the years 1991 and 2015. The main goal of this research is to seek answers to the following questions: 1) how is the balance of power of the parties forming the coalition? 2) what is the ratio of party power in parliament to the total power of the parties building the coalition – are we dealing with over-representation or under-representation of real power in parliament within the cabinet? The party’s power in the cabinet is the number of ministerial portfolios allocated to it (portfolio allocation). This issue is related to the reflection on 3) whether the ideological closeness of the party was important for the formation of coalition agreements in the analyzed period.

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