Pre-Electoral Commitments and Government Formation
Recent studies show that pre-electoral commitments and the ideological distance between parties influence government formation. But do pre-electoral pacts or rejections of party combinations really have an independent impact on the outcome of the government formation game? Which policy areas matter...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Public Choice. - Springer Science + Business Media. - 138(2009), 1/2, Seite 45-64 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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2009
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Public Choice |
| Schlagworte: | Coalition theories Content analysis Ideological heterogeneity Pre-electoral commitments Endogeneity problems Political science Behavioral sciences Economics Mathematics Applied sciences |
| Zusammenfassung: | Recent studies show that pre-electoral commitments and the ideological distance between parties influence government formation. But do pre-electoral pacts or rejections of party combinations really have an independent impact on the outcome of the government formation game? Which policy areas matter when parties agree to build a coalition? This paper addresses these questions by applying a dataset that includes information on preferred/rejected coalition partners and the policy-area specific programmatic heterogeneity of all potential coalitions. The results show that pre-electoral commitments have a significant impact on government formation after controlling for endogeneity problems. There is also evidence that not only diversity in economic issues determines the partisan composition of governments. |
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| ISSN: | 15737101 |