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Coalition governments and social democracies? - DiamondzandMaybachz - 03-04-2014 10:01 AM
Why might coalition governments lend themselves to social democracies more so than systems where majoritarian politics prevail? nature of man and the market?
- dutchdog - 03-04-2014 10:10 AM
Social Democracy is not a state-structure, but a political stream (an ideology). So Social Democracy is not the reason why coalition governments to exist.
Some countries have a two-party system, others have a multi-party system. In a multi-party system coalition governments are more common. Often, there the threshold for different parties to gain seats in parliament is lower, in other words: it's easier to enter parliament as party.
In some countries that have a two-party system, there's also a Social Democratic party (or Labour), so that's another example why the two things are not connected like that.