Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/74157 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 83.2006
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
We analyze the relative importance of party ideology and rents from office in the formation of coalitions in a parliamentary democracy. In equilibrium, the types of coalitions that are formed may be minimal winning, minority or surplus and they may be ideologically `disconnected'. The coalitions that form depend upon the relative importance of rents of office and seat shares of the parties. If rents are high, governments cannot be surplus. With low rents or the formateur close to the median, minority governments occur for a wider ideological dispersion. Further, there is a non-monotonic relationship between connectedness of coalitions and rents.
Subjects: 
Coalitions
Ideology
Rents
JEL: 
C72
D72
H19
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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