A Theory of Minority and Majority Governments

Tasos Kalandrakis

Political Science Research and Methods, 2015, vol. 3, issue 2, 309-328

Abstract: I develop a theory of the emergence of minority and majority governments in multiparty parliamentary systems. I study a general bargaining environment with a policy space of arbitrary finite dimension, any number of political parties, and a general class of preferences over the government agreement space. I find that only majority governments form in the absence of significant political disagreement. However, I show that, except for knife-edge situations, minority government are formed with positive probability when parties represented in parliament are sufficiently ideologically polarized.

Date: 2015
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