Left Parties in National Governments

Left Parties in National Governments analyses why Left Parties enter national government, what they do when they get there and what affect this has on both their programmatic positions and their electoral prospects. The book looks at how we should expect to the left of the main social democratic actor - what we term here as Left Parties - to behave when government participation becomes a possibility. It includes nine detailed case studies, encompassing every Left Party in Europe that has ei...