Political Parties and Coalition Formation
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Working paper
Issue number:
697
Publisher:
University of Warwick
Year:
2003
This chapter gives a flavour of recent theoretical work on coalition formation and political parties. I survey recent work on both pre-election coalition formation and post election coalition (or government) formation. A number of alternative rationales for the formation of parties are compared with the help of some illustrative examples.