The Duration of Cabinet Formation Processes in Western Multi-Party Democracies
By: DIERMEIER, Daniel; ROOZENDAAL, Peter Van
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ArticlePublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, October 1998British Journal of Political Science 28, 4, p. 609-626Abstract: Strategic models of coalition bargaining formation have demonstrated the importance of institutional features for an understanding of cabinet formation in West European democracies. Yet litlle is know about the empirical regularities of government formation processes. In this article we analyse the duration of formation processes using a semi-parametric estimation procedure on a data set of 304 government formations in thirteen multi-party democracies. The results are consisten with a baragaing approach under incomplete information
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Strategic models of coalition bargaining formation have demonstrated the importance of institutional features for an understanding of cabinet formation in West European democracies. Yet litlle is know about the empirical regularities of government formation processes. In this article we analyse the duration of formation processes using a semi-parametric estimation procedure on a data set of 304 government formations in thirteen multi-party democracies. The results are consisten with a baragaing approach under incomplete information
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