Bandyopadhyay, Siddhartha; Chatterjee, Kalyan; … - Department of Economics, University of Birmingham - 2010
We study a game-theoretic model where political parties can form coalitions both before and after the elections. Before election, coalitions can commit to a seat-sharing arrangement, but not to a policy or to a division of rents from office; coalition members are free to break up and join other...