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Coalition governments and policy reform with asymmetric information

Helm, Carsten (contributor); Neugart, Michael (contributor) - 2008

proposals is hard to judge for the electorate. However, if reform proposals have to be agreed upon by coalition parties, it may …, in coalition governments reforms will be more in line with policy requirements than in single-party governments. This is … usually beneficial for the coalition parties as well as for the voter. -- Asymmetric information ; coalition governments …

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Tax Contracts and Elections

Gersbach, Hans; Schneider, Maik T. - 2010

In this paper we examine the impact of tax contracts as a novel institution on elections, policies, and welfare. We consider a political game in which three parties compete to form the government. Parties have policy preferences about the level of public-good provision and benefit from perks...

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Measuring the difficulties in forming a coalition government

Hiller, Tobias - In: Games 14 (2023) 2, pp. 1-15

parliaments and facilitate the formation of a coalition government. However, the clauses also introduce distortions and modify the … necessary to measure the difficulties in forming a coalition government and to quantify the effects of electoral thresholds on … distribution of seats in parliament and coalition statements of parties. …

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Parties, Coalitions, and the Internal Organization of Legislatures

Diermeier, Daniel; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2011

We present a model of parties-in-legislatures that can support partisan policy outcomes despite the absence of any party-imposed voting discipline. Legislators choose all procedures and policies through majority-rule bargaining and cannot commit to vote against their preferences on either. Yet,...

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Discontinuity and Non-Existence of Equilibrium in the Probabilistic Spatial Voting Model

Ball, Richard J. - 2000

This paper shows that in the simplest one-dimensional, two-candidate probabilistic spatial voting model (PSVM), a pure strategy Nash equilibrium may fail to exist. The existence problem studied here is the result of a discontinuity in the function mapping the candidates' platforms into their...

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An Empirical Investigation of Coalitional Bargaining Procedures

Diermeier, Daniel; Merlo, Antonio - 2001

Models of government formation processes in multi party democracies are usually highly sensitive to the rules that govern the selection of formateurs (i.e., the parties selected to propose a potential government). The theoretical literature has focused on two selection rules: selection...

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Representativeness of the parties and the Bundestag

Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2022

the Bundestag parties and the Bundestag (before coalition-formation) has significantly increased since 2017. In particular … 'Traffic light coalition', SPD+GRUNE+FDP, its compatibility is as low as 45% and the representativeness is not the best either. …

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An election method to improve policy representation of a parliament

Tanguiane, Andranick S. - In: Group decision and negotiation 26 (2017) 1, pp. 181-196

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Combining the third vote with traditional elections

Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2019

The German two-vote election system implements two historical conceptions of political representation coined at the end of the 18th century during the American and French Revolutions. The descriptive conception - the parliament portrays the society in miniature - is implemented in the first vote...

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Design and results of the third vote experiment during the 2017 election of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology student parliament

Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2017

The voting method described in [Tangian 2017b] has been experimentally approbated during the 2016 election to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Student Parliament [Tangian 2017c]. Under this election method, the voters cast no votes but are asked about their preferences on the policy...

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