Firstly, the question of what are the political conditions that lead to the formation of coalitions, either at the level of political parties and/or within governments. [...] With regard to the outcomes in the three countries, however, the articles reflect differences on the basis of the choices made by the political actors. [...] What the article clearly demonstrates, is that certain decisions were made in the late 1990s to transform the country’s electoral laws with the aim of solving what was then perceived to be the cause of government instability, that is, the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) electoral system. [...] Secondly, whether the cause of coalition government instability may be the political strategies and tactics deployed by competing parties which end up undermining the spirit and the letter of the amendments that were instituted back in the late 1990s. [...] In the context of a country coming out of a long period of apartheid rule, the negotiations in the early 1990s provided for the creation of a Government of National Unity (GNU).
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