and hunters were part of a discourse coalition that advocated killing cougars to solve problems, blamed cougars and those …, and some elected officials were of a coalition that defined “the problem” primarily in terms of people’s behaviors …

countries is self-enforcing. It is shown that there always exists a rather small stable tax coalition. For some subset of the … parameter space the grand coalition may be stable as well, even if the total number of countries is large. The small stable … coalition is not very effective in mitigating the inefficiency of the non-cooperative Nash equilibrium. The ineffectiveness is …

of admission of different players, the equilibrium coalition structure, and the equilibrium length of the admission game …

converges towards discriminatory balances, which are unstable. b) Which discriminating coalition will form can be decided by … of the cross-coalition type, the sensitivity of the negotiations process to imperfections of the negotiations process and …