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Wasting Time? The Impact of Ideology and Size on Delay in Coalition Formation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2003

LANNY W. MARTIN
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Florida State University
GEORG VANBERG
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee

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Coalition theory has a distinguished tradition in comparative politics. Beginning with William Riker's The Theory of Political Coalitions,William H. Riker, The Theory of Political Coalitions (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1962). comparativists have made considerable theoretical and empirical progress in understanding the complexities of coalition politics, most significantly with respect to government formation and termination.

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