The Mechanism of Government Alternation during the Reign of Charles I. Cover Image

The Mechanism of Government Alternation during the Reign of Charles I.
The Mechanism of Government Alternation during the Reign of Charles I.

The Establishment of an Organised Alternation between the National Liberal Party (NLP) and the Conservative Party (CP) (1895-1914)

Author(s): Cosmin Ştefan Dogaru
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, History, Civil Society, Governance, Public Administration, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Government/Political systems, Electoral systems
Published by: Alexandru and Aristia Aman Foundation
Keywords: king Charles I; government alternation; National Liberal Party (NLP); Conservative Party (CP); political stability

Summary/Abstract: The reign of Charles I favoured the indigenous process of formation of a two-party system of govern-ment, which, although following the British model, had its own particularities that were specific to the local Romanian political realm. The last part of Charles I’s reign can be defined through this establish-ment of the two-party system of government between the years 1895-1914, discernible in the organ-ised alternation of government during this specific period of time. Gradually, this mechanism of gov-ernment alternation became habitual – a kind of custom of the Romanian politics of the age. Thus, dur-ing the period 1895-1914, the establishment of the Romanian two-party system of government was actualised through the implementation of an organised alternation of government between the Na-tional Liberal Party (NLP) and the Conservative Party (CP)

  • Issue Year: 1/2015
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 48-61
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English