Comparative research on building and management of grand coalition governments in European countries

该项目探索了以德国为主的大联合政府的组建和管理。虽然据说分裂的政府是两个大党组成联合政府的结构性原因，但德国最常见的政府模式是“部分”分裂的政府，这意味着执政的联合党和反对党都无法控制上议院。基辛格政府的个案研究表明，政治考量是组成大联合政府的主要驱动力，大联合政府倾向于关注紧迫的问题。在默克尔政府的案例中，两大政党同意平衡预算的原则，但在失业保障网等细节上存在冲突。

This project explored the formation and management of grand coalition governments in mainly Germany. Though it was said that the divided government was a structural cause of making a coalition between two big parties, the most frequent pattern of government in Germany is a "partial" divided government which means that neither ruling coalition parties nor opposition parties get control of the upper house. The case study of Kiesinger government revealed that political calculations was the main driving force to make a grand coalition which tended to focus on the urgent issues. In the case of Merkel government, two big parties agreed with the principle of balanced budget, but conflicted in particulars such as the safety nets for the unemployment.