Discuss in general terms the factors that may account for the government’s (a) composition and (b) type you observe

Visit the website: http://www.parties-and-elections.eu. Please remember that the website provides
information on legislative electoral results (lower house): (a) the share of
the vote (%vote) for each party, and (b) number of legislative seats for each
party. You should focus on (b) number of legislative seats.
Now, access the most
recent distribution of seats following the parliamentary elections in the
following countries (click on ‘countries’ at the top of the webpage): France
(2017), Sweden (2018), and Netherlands (2021).
On
the electoral results page (parties-and-elections.eu) and under the country
name you will see listed the Governing Parties (this is the executive or
government in power).
Do
the following: (1) write down the ‘government’ (the governing parties) for
each of the three countries, in other words provide the government’s party
composition in each country-case (which parties form the government or
executive?)
Next, (2) identify
whether each country has a ‘Left’ or ‘Right’ government.
Now, (3) use
Chapter 4 to identify the type of government in each case [Hint: here you will
need the government’s percent seats in the legislature. Recall that the
electoral results on the webpage include the number of seats each party receives
in the election.
For instance, in the 2014 election in Sweden, the Social
Democratic Workers’ Party got 113 seats; this is 32.4% of the total seats (113
seats out of a total of 349 seats in the Riksdag, the Swedish legislature)].

Finally, (4) based on Chapter 4 discuss in general terms the factors
that may account for the government’s (a) composition and (b) type you observe
in each of the three cases.

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