Government–Opposition Relations and the Vote of No-Confidence

The vote of no-confidence is the primary mechanism through which principle government accountability to legislature – defining feature parliamentary democracy achieved. Yet, no research has been devoted its influence on relations between and mechanism’s main users opposition. This article attempts fill this lacuna by theorising how restrictiveness in influences opposition’s strategies vis-à-vis legislative voting. We delineate opposition via preference pursue more cooperative strategies, as opposed conflictual ones, distinguishing two stages initiating empirically explore relation voting behaviour 59 parties 16 countries, showing that greater restrictions both correlate with less behaviour.