Bandyopadhyay, Siddhartha; Chatterjee, Kalyan; … - In: Quarterly Journal of Political Science 6 (2011) 1, pp. 1-53
We study a game-theoretic model where three political parties (left, median and right) can form coalitions both before and after the election. Before the election, coalitions can commit to a seat-sharing arrangement, but not to a policy platform or a division of rents from office; coalition...