motivated citizen groups form parties, voting occurs and governments are formed. We study the coalition governments that emerge … coalition formation game affects the incentives for party formation. In particular, we show that when the rents from office are …

obtain that many of the informative equilibria are sustained by a coalition government, however the coalition is never …

This paper provides a game-theoretic model of representative democracy with endogenous party formation. Coalition …

is at least one winning coalition. Such a game is said to be precisely supportive if it is possible to assign weights to … players in such a way that a coalition being winning in a partition implies that the combined weight of its members is maximal … coalition. We show that decisive plurality games with at most four players, majority games with an arbitrary number of players …

coalitions. The paper argues that such volatility reflects the inability of coalition members to build loyal constituency bases …