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Voting Blocs, Party Discipline and Party Formation

2010; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.2139/ssrn.1514506

1556-5068

Jon X. Eguia,

Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics

In this paper I study the strategic implications of coalition formation in an assembly. A coalition forms a voting bloc to coordinate the voting behavior of its members, acting as a single player and affecting the policy outcome. In a game of endogenous coalition formation, I show that voting blocs form in equilibrium, and in an assembly with two parties I show how the incentives to join a bloc depend on the types of the agents, the sizes of the parties, and the rules the blocs use to aggregate preferences.