motivated citizen groups form parties, voting occurs and governments are formed. We study the coalition governments that emerge … coalition formation game affects the incentives for party formation. In particular, we show that when the rents from office are …

agents. The coalition with the greatest power wins the resource and divides it among its members via proportional sharing. We … by the coalition formation model with farsighted agents. …

The coalition literature has thrived during the 20th century, and now constitutes not only a consolidated field in … this history, coalition models have played a key role in tailoring explanations about various phenomena such as coalition … that coalition models are designed for. I argue that models come in different flavours, namely: conceptual, whose goal …

produce for the endogenous formation of an international counterterror coalition. We show that there are quite reasonable … counterterror coalition, holding the choices of all other nations as given. The incentives to join the coalition are the group …-specific benefits from retaliation enjoyed by each coalition member, the relatively lower spillover benefit from retaliation enjoyed by …

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. …