The Basic Arithmetic of Legislative Decisions
Basic Arithmetic of Legislative Decisions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6232487 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Laver (0000-0001-7515-9831, New York University), Kenneth Benoit (0000-0002-0797-564X, London School of Economics and Trinity College Dublin) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 275-291 |
| Publication date | 2015-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ajps.12111 |
| OpenAlex | W2121665893 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
| References cited | 31 |
Despite the huge number of possible seat distributions following a general election in a multiparty parliamentary democracy, there are far fewer classes of seat distribution sharing important strategic features. We define an exclusive and exhaustive partition of the universe of theoretically possible n-party systems into five basic classes, the understanding of which facilitates more fruitful modeling of legislative politics, including government formation. Having defined a partition of legislative party systems and elaborated logical implications of this partition, we classify the population of postwar European legislatures. We show empirically that many of these are close to critical boundary conditions, so that stochastic processes involved in any legislative election could easily flip the resulting legislature from one type to another. This is of more than hypothetical interest, since we also show that important political outcomes differ systematically between the classes of party systems—outcomes that include duration of government formation negotiations, type of coalition cabinet that forms, and stability of the resulting government
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Determinanten der Bildung nicht-etablierter Koalitionen in den deutschen Bundesländern, 1990–2016
The closer, the better – How perceived ideological proximity between parties affects the emergence of coalition preferences
The duration of government formation processes in Europe
Navigating complexity
Investiture rules and the formation and type of government in Israel and Italy
Multiple vote electoral systems
Bargaining complexity and the duration of government formation
Context and Political Knowledge
Marriages of Convenience
Coalition politics under exceptional exogenous constraints
Do voters want their parties to be office- or policy-seekers in coalition negotiations
Government Formation as Logrolling in High-Dimensional Issue Spaces
Why Do Parties Merge? Electoral Volatility and Long-Term Coalitions
Moderate as Necessary
Platforms, Portfolios, Policy
What Makes Party Systems Different? A Principal Component Analysis of 17 Advanced Democracies 1970–2013
Simulating Party Shares
Parliamentary Control of the Executive and the Duration of Government Formation
Economy or austerity? Drivers of retrospective voting before and during the Great Recession
Determinants of Government Membership at the Subnational Level
Sowing the Seeds of Love’? Determinants of Local Coalition Formation and Termination between the CDU and the Greens, 1994–2016
Not always on an equal footing
Bargaining Complexity Beyond Arithmetic
Coalition Bargaining Duration in Multiparty Democracies
The Impact of Institutional and Financial Constraints on Party Behaviour in Local Politics
Momentum in the polls raises electoral expectations
The Electoral System, the Party System and Accountability in Parliamentary Government
Political and institutional determinants of immigration policies
Attributing Policy Influence under Coalition Governance
Multiparty Government
Government Survival in Parliamentary Democracies
Negotiation in legislatures over government formation
On division of the question
Bargaining over Governments in a Stochastic Environment
Dominant players and minimum size coalitions
Bargaining Delays in the Government Formation Process
Models of Government Formation
The Evolution of Party Systems between Elections
The Process of Cabinet Dissolution
Of Artifacts and Partisan Instability
A Unified Model of Cabinet Dissolution in Parliamentary Democracies
Cabinet Survival and Competing Risks
Events, Equilibria, and Government Survival
Voting Weights and Formateur Advantages in the Formation of Coalition Governments
The Duration of Cabinet Formation Processes in Western Multi-Party Democracies
Wasting Time? The Impact of Ideology and Size on Delay in Coalition Formation
Coalition Termination and the Strategic Timing of Parliamentary Elections
Cabinet Terminations and Critical Events
A Method for Evaluating the Distribution of Power in a Committee System
| Unique citing works | 29 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,64 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |