Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

COALITION GOVERNMENT

Specialty Definition: COALITION GOVERNMENT

DomainDefinition

Literature

Coalition Government A Government formed by various parties by a mutual surrender of principles. The administration of Lord North and Charles Fox, 1783, was a coalition, but it fell to pieces in a few months. That of Lord Salisbury with the old Whig party headed by Lord Hartington was a coalition (1886-1892). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Commercial Usage: COALITION GOVERNMENT

DomainTitle

Books

  • Consensus and Disunity: The Lloyd George Coalition Government, 1918-1922 (reference)

  • Coalition Government, Subnational Style: Multiparty Politics in Europe's Regional Parliaments (Parliaments and Legislatures) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Non-Fiction Usage: COALITION GOVERNMENT

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Hungary

Only FIDESZ-led coalition Government delegates served on the truncated media boards for Hungarian Public Radio and Hungarian Public Television, despite the fact that the law requires politically proportional representation on the boards. (references)

Hungary

The Constitution provides for freedom of speech and the press, and the Government generally respects this right in practice; however, during the year, the FIDESZ-led coalition Government continued to attempt to counterbalance what it considered a leftwing bias in news coverage through its influence on personnel decisions within the state-owned media. (references)

Economic History

Israel

Barak formed a mixed coalition government of secular and religious parties. (references)

Human Rights

Malaysia

A Member of Parliament (M.P.) from the ruling coalition government was convicted in 2000 and fined more than $2,600 (10,000 RM) on a contempt charge. (references)

Political Economy

Ireland

Until 1989, Fianna Fail had refused to enter into a coalition government. (references)

New Zealand

After a year in office, the Labour coalition government has assuaged initial fears of the business community. (references)

Political Rights

Bulgaria

A coalition government headed by former King Simeon Saxe-Coburg of the National Movement Simeon II (NMS) party won the elections and took office in July. (references)

Macedonia

In May in a display of unity in response to the insurgency, all major political parties--including ethnic-Albanian parties--joined a coalition government. (references)

Cambodia

The coalition Government appointed the 24 provincial and municipal governors and their deputies, who are divided between the CPP and FUNCINPEC parties, as well as district officials. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Top     

Frequency of Internet Keywords: COALITION GOVERNMENT

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

coalition government

3

coalition government procurement

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Modern Translation: COALITION GOVERNMENT

Language Translations for "COALITION GOVERNMENT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

koalièní vláda. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kokoomushallitus. (various references)

   

German

  

Koalitionsregierung. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κυβέρνηση συνασπισμού. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

koalíciós kormány. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

連立"権 , 連合"権 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

れ""うせいけ", れ"りつせいけ". (various references)

   

Manx

  

co-reiltys. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oalitioncay overnmentgay

   

Russian 

  

коалиционное правительство. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Anagrams: COALITION GOVERNMENT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-g-i-i-l-m-n-n-n-o-o-o-r-t-t-v"

-5 letters: antigovernment, conglomeration, conglomerative, nongeometrical, noninteractive.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     



INDEX

1. Usage: Commercial
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.