Add to ORKGAccording to theories on coalition formation, parties with a key position in the coalition game receive higher office and policy payoffs than their coalition partners. In this article, I use two models of government-formation – the portfolio allocation model and the political heart model – to identify key players in the coalition game. Both models are modi-fied to incorporate institutional and political constraints on coalition-formation, and the predictions of key parties from the four models are compared with the governments that actually formed in five Europea
Executive summary: An interest group coalition exists whenever two or more interest groups collabor...
In the government formation process, coalition partners make decisions about the inner workings of t...
In coalition governments, political parties are concerned not only with how many but also with which...
This article highlights the electoral effects of holding salient portfolios within a coalition gover...
Studies on coalition formation assume that political parties have two major goals: They aim to maxim...
Political parties bargain over the allocation of cabinet portfolios when form-ing coalition governme...
The centre is an interesting concept for formal models of, for instance, political coalition formati...
Coalition formation has been the subject of much theoretical work in the past decade or so. The theo...
Most models of the formation of political coalitions use either Euclidean spaces or rely purely on g...
Political parties bargain over the allocation of cabinet portfolios when forming coalition governmen...
We analyse a model of coalition government in a parliamentary democracy where parties care both for ...
Abstract. Perhaps the strongest empirical finding in political science is ‘Gamson’s Law’: the near-p...
Coalitions are the norm across Europe, where proportional electoral systems tend to be the norm and ...
Policy in coalition governments (a) depends on negotiations between parties that (b) continue betwee...
Government formation in multiparty systems is of self-evident substantive importance, and the subjec...
Executive summary: An interest group coalition exists whenever two or more interest groups collabor...
In the government formation process, coalition partners make decisions about the inner workings of t...
In coalition governments, political parties are concerned not only with how many but also with which...
This article highlights the electoral effects of holding salient portfolios within a coalition gover...
Studies on coalition formation assume that political parties have two major goals: They aim to maxim...
Political parties bargain over the allocation of cabinet portfolios when form-ing coalition governme...
The centre is an interesting concept for formal models of, for instance, political coalition formati...
Coalition formation has been the subject of much theoretical work in the past decade or so. The theo...
Most models of the formation of political coalitions use either Euclidean spaces or rely purely on g...
Political parties bargain over the allocation of cabinet portfolios when forming coalition governmen...
We analyse a model of coalition government in a parliamentary democracy where parties care both for ...
Abstract. Perhaps the strongest empirical finding in political science is ‘Gamson’s Law’: the near-p...
Coalitions are the norm across Europe, where proportional electoral systems tend to be the norm and ...
Policy in coalition governments (a) depends on negotiations between parties that (b) continue betwee...
Government formation in multiparty systems is of self-evident substantive importance, and the subjec...
Executive summary: An interest group coalition exists whenever two or more interest groups collabor...
In the government formation process, coalition partners make decisions about the inner workings of t...
In coalition governments, political parties are concerned not only with how many but also with which...