| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
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| Research Abstract |
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.
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