A consensus model of political decision-making

Patrik Eklund (), Agnieszka Rusinowska and Harrie Swart ()

Annals of Operations Research, 2008, vol. 158, issue 1, 5-20

Abstract: In this paper, a model of political consensus is introduced. Parties try to reach consensus in forming a government. A government is defined as a pair consisting of a winning coalition and a policy supported by this coalition, where a policy consists of policies on given issues. A party evaluates all governments the party belongs to with respect to some criteria. We allow the criteria to be of unequal importance to a party. These criteria concern winning coalitions and policy issues. Parties may be advised to adjust their preferences, i.e., to change their evaluation concerning some government(s) or/and the importance of the criteria, in order to obtain a better political consensus. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2008

Keywords: Consensus reaching; Consensus degree; Government; Coalition; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1007/s10479-007-0249-2

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