In this article we present an overview of our recent research on the effects of constitutions on coalition governments … stability of coalition governments …

coalitions. Same basic data about the coalition form and the characteristic function is necessary in order to connect n … long term coalition in Greece. We potentially suggest which parties could form a coalition by using game theory for those …

Political coalition formation games can describe the formation and dissolution of nations, as well as the creation of … coalition governments, the establishment of political parties, and other similar phenomena. These games have been studied from a … of estimating political coalition formation models with many-player coalitions, and then illustrates this method by …

candidates' form parties, voting occurs and governments are formed. We study the coalition governments that emerge as functions … be minimal winning, minority or surplus. Moreover, coalitions may be `disconnected'. We then look at how the coalition …

models of coalition formation:• Fallback (FB): Players seek coalition partners by descending lower and lower in their … preference rankings until a majority coalition forms.• Build-Up (BU): Similar to FB, except that when nonmajority subcoalitions … convergence process.FB better reflects the unconstrained, or nonmyopic, possibilities of coalition formation, whereas BU - because …

shaped by the prospect of reelections. The essays in this book enrich this field by introducing aspects of coalition …

The coalition literature has thrived during the 20th century, and now constitutes not only a consolidated field in … this history, coalition models have played a key role in tailoring explanations about various phenomena such as coalition … that coalition models are designed for. I argue that models come in different flavours, namely: conceptual, whose goal …

coalitions in simple games. We characterise those sets of players which can be imposed in the equilibrium coalition and show that … the only decisive structures where the agenda setter can impose the presence of any minimal winning coalition are apex … games, where a large player forms a winning coalition with any of the small players …