TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fleischer, Julia
A1  - Seyfried, Markus
T1  - Drawing from the bargaining pool: Determinants of ministerial selection in Germany
T2  - Party politics : an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations
N2  - This article expands our current knowledge about ministerial selection in coalition governments and analyses why ministerial candidates succeed in acquiring a cabinet position after general elections. It argues that political parties bargain over potential office-holders during government-formation processes, selecting future cabinet ministers from an emerging bargaining pool'. The article draws upon a new dataset comprising all ministrable candidates discussed by political parties during eight government-formation processes in Germany between 1983 and 2009. The conditional logit regression analysis reveals that temporal dynamics, such as the day she enters the pool, have a significant effect on her success in achieving a cabinet position. Other determinants of ministerial selection discussed in the existing literature, such as party and parliamentary expertise, are less relevant for achieving ministerial office. The article concludes that scholarship on ministerial selection requires a stronger emphasis for its endogenous nature in government-formation as well as the relevance of temporal dynamics in such processes.
KW  - Candidates
KW  - Germany
KW  - government-formation
Y1  - 2015
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/38799
SN  - 1354-0688
SN  - 1460-3683
VL  - 21
IS  - 4
SP  - 503
EP  - 514
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - London
ER  -