Voting blocs, party discipline and party formation
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چکیده
I study the strategic incentives to coordinate votes in an assembly. Coalitions form voting blocs, acting as single players and affecting the policy outcome. In an assembly with two exogenous parties I show how the incentives to accept party discipline depend on the types of the agents, the sizes of the parties, and the rules the blocs use to aggregate preferences. In a game of fully endogenous party formation, I find sufficient conditions for the existence of equilibria with one bloc, two blocs, and multiple blocs. JEL Classification: D71, D72.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Games and Economic Behavior
دوره 73 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011