This chapter gives a flavour of recent theoretical work on coalition formation and political parties. I survey recent work on both pre-election coalition formation and post election coalition (or government) formation. A number of alternative rationales for the formation of parties are compared with the help of some illustrative examples. JEL Classification:C71, C72, C78, D71, D72, D78

The current study examined whether or not individuals who vicariously win a competition seek out pornography relatively more often than individuals who vicariously lose a competition. By examining a portion of Google keyword searches during the 2004, 2006 and 2008 US election cycles, the relative popularity of online pornography keywords searches was computed for each state and the District of ...

The problem of leader election in distributed systems is considered. Components communicate by means of buuered broadcasting as opposed to usual point-to-point communication. In this paper three leader election protocols of increasing maturity are speciied. We start with a simple leader election protocol, where an initial leader is present. In the second protocol this assumption is dropped. Eve...

During election campaigns political parties compete to inform voters about their leaders, the issues, and where they stand on these issues. In that sense, election campaigns can be viewed as a particular kind of information campaign. Democratic theory supposes that participatory democracies are better served by an informed electorate rather than an uninformed one. But do all voters make equal i...

Previous research on personality and political attitudes has been conducted in countries where political parties from the center dominate the political system. In the present research (N = 675), we focus on the relationship between the dark side of human personality and political orientation and extremism, respectively, in the course of a presidential election where the two candidates represent...

This paper is one of the rst to analyse political in uence on state-owned savings banks in a developed country with an established nancial market: Germany. Combining a large dataset with nancial and operating gures of all 457 German savings banks from 1994 to 2006 and information on over 1,250 local elections during this period we investigate the change in business behavior around elections. We...

People around the world use social media platforms such as Twitter to express their opinion and share activities about various aspects of daily life. In the same way social media changes communication in daily life, it also is transforming the way individuals communicate during disasters and emergencies. Because emergency officials have come to rely on social media to communicate alerts and upd...

We study the opportunistic political budget cycle in the London Metropolitan Boroughs between 1902 and 1937 under two different suffrage regimes: taxpayer suffrage (1902-1914) and universal suffrage (1921-1937). We argue and find supporting evidence that the political budget cycle operates differently under the two types of suffrage. Taxpayer suffrage, where the right to vote and the obligation...

Why do states persist in offering large financial incentives to firms to induce them to invest in the state, a practice commonly derided as “smoke-stack chasing”? The conventional wisdom is that while incentives may be a poor long term economic development strategy, they are a good political strategy for governors seeking to improve economic conditions and political support in the short term. U...

The purposes of this study are: To find out the victory and electability factor Royal Simanjuntak from PKB to become a Member DPRD North Tapanuli Regency in 2019 Election understand Election. type research is qualitative research. strategy carried by his Legislative maximizing 9 elements political marketing, are segmentation, positioning, policy, person, party, presentation, pull pass marketing...