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A Structural Model of Government Formation
Author(s) -
Diermeier Daniel,
Eraslan Hülya,
Merlo Antonio
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
econometrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 16.7
H-Index - 199
eISSN - 1468-0262
pISSN - 0012-9682
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0262.00389
Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , economics , philosophy , linguistics
In this paper we estimate a bargaining model of government formation in parliamentary democracies. We use the estimated structural model to conduct constitutional experiments aimed at evaluating the impact of institutional features of the political environment on the duration of the government formation process, the type of coalitions that form, and their relative stability.
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