Models of Government Formation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6233074 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Laver (0000-0001-7515-9831, Department of Political Science, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland;, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-25 |
| Publication date | 1998-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Political Science (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-2939 • E-ISSN: 1545-1577 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev.polisci.1.1.1 |
| OpenAlex | W2141152018 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 112 |
| References cited | 63 |
This review deals with the making and breaking of governments in “minority legislatures” in which no political party controls a majority of seats. It looks at both a priori and empirical approaches to analyzing government formation, at the application of both cooperative and noncooperative game-theoretic models, and at the impact of both office-seeking and policy-seeking assumptions about the motivations of politicians. Substantive themes covered include the partisan composition of both minority and majority cabinets, the allocation of cabinet portfolios between parties, and the duration of cabinets in minority legislatures. The way forward in this field is identified in terms of the need for more dynamic models that see government formation as a complex system within the broader context of party competition as a whole, and for models that take fundamental account of intraparty politics in their description of the strategic behavior of political parties
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Governing Europe
Cabinets, Ministers, and Gender
Party Policy in Modern Democracies
Comparative Executive–Legislative Relations
The Changing European State
Contentious Politics in Western Europe and the United States
On Studying Governments
Recasting European Welfare States
What Is New About Governance and Why Does It Matter?
Comparing Economic Interest Organizations
Winners and Losers under Proportional Representation
Endangered Species Policy in Canada and the US
Governing in fragmented party systems
The quantitative and qualitative allocation of ministerial portfolios to European radical right parties
Party, coalition, premiership
Political Parties, Coalitions and Democracy
Coalition Politics and Inter‐Party Conflict Management
Party Size, Ideology, and Executive‐Level Representation in Advanced Parliamentary Democracies
Semi-Presidential Systems
Strategic convergence, ideological discounting, and pre-electoral coalition formation
Party switching and policy disagreement
Fragmentation and performance
Government Formation and Policy Formulation in the German States
Navigating complexity
Government Formation and Public Policy
Modelling multiple goals
When Crises Unite. Changing Party Positions on Foreign Policy During Critical Events in Germany
Government Formation and Political Discussions in Twitter
Opening the Black Box
All the President's Men and Women
Do second-order elections produce second-order governments? How national and regional factors influence the composition of regional governments
Pre-electoral commitments and government formation
Crafting consensus
Alliances électorales entre deux tours de scrutin
Why voters prefer coalitions
Theory Development in Comparative Social Research
Coalition Formation in Legislative Bargaining
How fractionalisation and polarisation explain the level of government turn-over
Uncertainty, Complexity, and Gamson’s Law
The implications of the European financial crisis and parties’ positions on European integration on the outcomes of government formation processes in Southern Europe
Investiture rules and formation of minority governments in European parliamentary democracies
Communist Successor Parties And Coalition Formation In Eastern Europe
The Political Dynamics of Portfolio Design in European Democracies
Power within Parties
Who Gets what and how Does it Matter? Importance-Weighted Portfolio Allocation and Coalition Support in Brazil
Coalition dynamics
Assembly dissolution powers and incumbency advantages in coalition formation
The power of prime ministers
Parliaments and government termination
Adopting restriction
Small parties
Parliamentary scrutiny of the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy
Policy Preferences in Coalition Formation and the Stability of Minority and Surplus Governments
Italy’s right turn. A spatial analysis of party competition in the 2022 Italian national election
Like Leaves in the Wind? Economic Conditions and Government Survival in Italy (1946–2015)
Gendering Gamson's Law
The Effect of Pre-Electoral Party Coordination on Vote Choice
Center Parties, Party Competition, and the Implosion of Party Systems
New Alliances
Dynamic Approaches to Studying Parliamentary Coalitions
The Executive Toolbox
New Empirical Strategies for the Study of Parliamentary Government Formation
Measuring Political Positions from Legislative Speech
Ruling divided
Explaining coalition-bargaining outcomes
Modelling Government Formation in Denmark and Beyond
Be careful what you wish for
ThePastof Parliamentary and Legislative Studies
Portfolio Allocation or Policy Horizons? Determinants of Coalition Formation in Danish Local Government
The Advantage of Incumbents in Coalitional Bargaining
When extremes meet
Change in parliamentary party systems and policy outcomes
Party Competition and Coalition Formation
Who Decides WhatEUIssues Ministers Talk About? Explaining GovernmentalEUPolicy Co‐Ordination inFinland
Faraway, so close
Ideological Fractionalization and the International Conflict Behavior of Parliamentary Democracies1
Descriptive Representation and Policymaking Authority
Cabinet Composition, Collegiality, and Collectivity
Theories of coalition formation
Analyzing Greens in power
The portfolio allocation paradox
From political novices to strategists
Conceptualizing and measuring subnational democracy across Indian states
The Economic Turn in Comparative Politics
And Yet It Moves
Credibility Versus Competition
Revenge of the Radical Right
Are Ministerial Gates Closed? Party Politicization and Fractionalization in the Federal Political Bureaucracy (1999-2018)
Taking Portfolios Difference Seriously
Constitutional Political Economy
The Basic Arithmetic of Legislative Decisions
The Importance of Concurrence
The Logic of Gamson's Law
Divisor Methods for Sequential Portfolio Allocation in Multi‐Party Executive Bodies
A Model of Endogenous Government Formation
Contending Models of Portfolio Allocation and Office Payoffs to Party Factions
Who “Wins”? Determining the Party of the Prime Minister
The Formation of Oversized Coalitions in Parliamentary Democracies
Parties Getting Impatient
Party-System Extremism in Majoritarian and Proportional Electoral Systems
Coalitions in Parliamentary Government
The theory of political coalitions.
Game Theory and Economic Modelling
Rationalizing Parliament
Making and Breaking Governments
Ideology, Strategy and Party Change
Instability of Simple Dynamic Games
Intransitivities in multidimensional voting models and some implications for agenda control
Generalized Symmetry Conditions at a Core Point
General Conditions for Global Intransitivities in Formal Voting Models
An economic theory of democracy
Comparative Democracy
Government Survival in Parliamentary Democracies
Existence of a ?structurally stable? equilibrium for a non-collegial voting rule
Government Coalitions in Western Democracies
Coalition government in Western Europe
Admission of European Free Trade Association states to the European Community
Government Coalitions in Western Europe
Voting strength in the European Parliament
Bargaining Theory and Portfolio Payoffs in European Coalition Governments 1945–83
Aspects of Coalition Payoffs in European Parliamentary Democracies
The Effect of Dominant and Central Parties on Cabinet Composition and Durability
Coalition Politics
Cabinets in the Netherlands (1918–1990)
Dominant players and minimum size coalitions
Political competitition and multiparty coalition governments
Toward a theoretical explanation of premature cabinet termination
The Durability of Coalition Governments in Parliamentary Democracies
An “Events” Approach to the Problem of Cabinet Stability
Measures of Cabinet Durability
The Process of Cabinet Dissolution
Constraints on Cabinet Formation in Parliamentary Democracies
A Unified Model of Cabinet Dissolution in Parliamentary Democracies
Allocating Coalition Payoffs by Conventional Norm
Reassessing the Importance of Size and Ideology for the Formation of Governing Coalitions in Parliamentary Democracies
Events, Equilibria, and Government Survival
Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
Coalition Termination and the Strategic Timing of Parliamentary Elections
Stable Governments and the Allocation of Policy Portfolios
Coalitions and Cabinet Government
Contending Models of Cabinet Stability
The Vote of Confidence in Parliamentary Democracies
Bargaining in Legislatures
Party Goals and Government Performance in Parliamentary Democracies
Elections, Coalitions, and Legislative Outcomes
A Spatial Bargaining Theory of Government Formation in Parliamentary Systems
Party Systems and Government Stability
The Costs of Coalition
A Method for Evaluating the Distribution of Power in a Committee System
| Unique citing works | 112 |
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| Citations per year | 4,31 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2026 (27) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 111 |