Problem
Weakness of multi-party parliamentary systems
Nature:
In a parliamentary assembly comprising members of many different political parties, a governmental majority may be very difficult to obtain or may be obtained only in a manner rendering administration and the passing of new legislation very difficult. This may lead to political unrest and revolution culminating in dictatorship. Government majority may require a coalition between two or more parties which may later disagree over policy, thus causing the government to fall, and a new government may not be formed immediately. Alternatively one party may have much more support than the others and may enjoy a largely uninterrupted term of office. Such parties tend to be conservative and may maintain a fairly strict censorship over the media. Broader Problems:
Unstable governmentPolitical instabilityPolitical fragmentationInadequate political structure Narrower Problems:
CoalitionsSocial fragmentation through political pluralism Related Problems:
Plural society tensionsMultidenominational society Values:
Weakness Subject(s):
Government → Parliament→ Political parties
→ Systems
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Date of last update
06.02.1997 – 00:00 CET