Government Instability Indicators and the Exercise of Limited

During the 1990s post communist societies faced similar challenges atthe level of executive government. Since the early studies of Rosenthal (1978), political science literature’s focus is on the different continuums of political stability. The literature argued that “political stability, political order and political structure belong to a single category of political concepts. One may call it the category of time oriented political concepts.This article is an effort to look at the indicators of political instability(redefined as Government instability) in an unconsolidated democracy. The issue of political stability in post-communist Romania must of course be analyzed in relation to the challenges of reform and the sources of the limited consensus in government coalition in Romania (1992-2004).