Handbook on Coalition Politics

Edited by Thomas Bräuninger, Professor of Political Economy and Marc Debus, Professor of Comparative Government, Department of Political Science, University of Mannheim, Germany

• ContentsList of contributors viiiPART I INTRODUCTION1 Research on the coalition life cycle 2Thomas Bräuninger and Marc Debus2 Which ‘coalition’? 22Michael LaverPART II CLASSICAL THEORETICAL APPROACHES3 Office- and policy-seeking theories of coalition formation 42Eric Linhart4 Cooperative and non-cooperative approaches in coalition theory 59Indridi H. Indridason5 Ministerial discretion 73Lucy GoodhartPART III RECENT THEORETICAL ADVANCES6 Formateur’s advantage 92Anna Bassi7 Government formation in the shadow of an uncertain future election 117Scott de Marchi, Michael Laver and Georg Vanberg8 Computational models of coalition formation 136Roni LehrerPART IV INSTITUTIONS AND CONTEXTS9 Intra-party politics and coalitions 153Andrea Ceron and Silvia Decadri10 Legislative institutions and coalitions 167Johan Hellström and Jonas Lindahl11 Multi-level systems and coalitions 183Martin Gross12 Coalitions in presidential and semi-presidential systems 198José Antonio Cheibub and Thiago N. SilvaPART V METHODS13 The use of structural models in coalition politics 221Daniel Diermeier and Tong Li14 Empirical models of government choice 236Garrett Glasgow, Matt Golder and Sona N. Golder15 Measuring policy outputs and outcomes in coalitions 256Mariyana Angelova16 Text analytical approaches for analysing coalitions 280Jan Schwalbach and Sven-Oliver ProkschPART VI COALITION LIFE CYCLE 1: PRE-FORMATION STAGE17 How voters understand coalition politics 294David Fortunato18 Pre-electoral coalitions 312Raimondas Ibenskas and José Zurita-TapiaPART VII COALITION LIFE CYCLE 2: BARGAINING STAGE19 Understanding pledge-making in coalition agreements: Evidence from the COALITIONPOLICY dataset 332Fabio Ellger and Heike Klüver20 Portfolio allocation in parliamentary democracies 353Hanna Bäck and Royce Carroll21 Slicing the pie: Portfolio design and coalition governments 368Ulrich Sieberer22 Legislative coalition bargaining under minority governments 382Maria Thürk23 Coalition bargaining duration 399Alejandro EckerPART VIII COALITION LIFE CYCLE 3: LIFE AND END OF COALITIONS24 Trust, but verify: Control mechanisms in multiparty governments 418Lanny W. Martin and Georg Vanberg25 Beyond manifestos: Pledge research and coalition agreements 434Theres Matthieß26 Government stability 449Svenja Krauss and Thomas M. MeyerIndex 463

‘The Handbook on Coalition Politics offers a treasure trove of wisdom on different types of coalition and, in particular, the theories developed to understand them, with the contributions being written by the “Who’s who?” in coalition research.’