The Influence of Diversity on Government Durations in Parliamentary Systems

The purpose of this theoretical study was to test the influence of individual identity on parliamentary government durations. The intent was to evaluate the influence of individual-level identities, aggregated to groups, on tangible organizational outcomes. To accomplish this, the study used existing historical data on 1,922 ministers from 106 European cabinets across 12 countries and applied Cox proportional-hazard modeling to examine the relationships between age and education and the duration of governments in parliamentary systems. The independent variables were age and education level for members of parliamentary governments across central Europe. The dependent variable was government duration. Stata 15 was used to conduct Cox proportional hazard modeling and bootstrap simulations. The study found education variance, a measure of deep diversity, reduced the hazard rate of governments failing. Ultimately education variance had a statistically significant positive relationship with government durations for parliamentary cabinets.|Keywords: Cox proportional-hazard model, diversity, government, government duration, homogeny, heterogony, identity, minister, multi-variate statistics, organizational survival, outcomes, parliament, social science, work team

Grantor dc:publisher

Creighton University

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Mace, Simon K.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Martin Jr., James R.

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• Copyright is retained by the Author. A non-exclusive distribution right is granted to Creighton University and to ProQuest following the publishing model selected above.

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en_US

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http://hdl.handle.net/10504/122803

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:cdr.creighton.edu:10504/122803