We analyze the relative importance of party ideology and rents from office in the formation of coalitions in a …

which the parties' policies match the preferences of the electorate. The parliament seats are then distributed among the … during the election of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Student Parliament on July 4-8, 2016. The experiment shows that … the alternative election method can increase the representativeness of the Student Parliament. We also discuss some traits …

Coalition signals can offer crucial information to voters during political campaigns. In multiparty systems, they … voters who care more about the formation of the next coalition government than supporting the preferred party might, for … example, defect from the preferred party in favor of another party that might produce a more desirable coalition government …

parties' potential for policy - as well as office - gains affects the willingness to form coalitions. In this way coalition …

incorporates data on voter perceptions of partisan ideology. I find that coalition parties amend the legislation of their partners …Coalition governance requires compromise and this compromise can lead to electoral losses. In this essay I argue that … coalition parties are motivated to differentiate themselves from their partners in order mitigate possible electoral losses …

model. We define survival of a crisis as being successful in a critical vote in the parliament. We develop a general … probabilistic model of political crises and test it empirically. We find that during crises, parties in the parliament are likely to …

because the party answers are backed up by the party "ideology" which determines a high intra-question correlation. The SPD … its high representativeness as well. Finally, all coalitions with two and three parties are also evaluated. The coalition … CDU/SPD (which is currently in power) is the most popular, and the coalition SPD/Green/Left-Party (which failed due to …

reduce government spending because they reduce party fragmentation and, therefore, the incidence of coalition governments …

reduce government spending because they reduce party fragmentation and, therefore, the incidence of coalition governments …