Research about Vulnerability and Resilience of the Belgian consensus federation

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K03281
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Politics
• Research Institution: Hokkai-Gakuen University
• Principal Investigator: Matsuo Hideya 北海学園大学, 法学部, 教授 (50453452)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: ベルギー / 連邦制 / 分裂危機 / 分離主義 / ポピュリスト

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Belgium has repeated "political crisis" that the coalition government could not form from 2007. Why is the crisis repeated so far?
As a result of this research, there was a tendency for political parties to become regionalize by the introduction of federal system. It made it difficult to form consensus in the federal government coalition process. However, after a certain period of negotiation, the established parties converted to agree. Although "vulnerability" is visible when "heterogeneous actors" entered in the coalition-making processes, the introduction of the federal system itself can not necessarily have a cause of crisis, and due to the structural factors such as economic disparity, or the increase of party competition by the change of government, the federal system has a property that makes it easier to raise regionalist parties.

Free Research Field

政治学