Political, institutional and legal determinants, essence, features and peculiarities of minority government in parliamentary democracies

In: Studium Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej, S. 59-74

Abstract

The article is dedicated to analyzing the phenomenon of minority governments in parliamentary democracies. The author examined the political, institutional and legal determinants, essence, features, peculiarities and causes for the formation of minority governments in parliamentary democracies. From the position of Political Science, it was argued that minority government is an alternative of a minority situation. The researcher determined that a minority government is a governmental cabinet, consisting of persons acting as representatives of the parliamentary parties or parliamentary groups, totally not controlling more than a half of the seats in a parliament or relevant chamber of a parliament, to whom by a constitution the government is responsible.