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Existence of Dominant Players and their Role in the Formation of a Cabinet Coalition

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  • Artyom Jelnov

    (Ariel University, Ariel 40700, Israel)

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A party is dominant if there is a majority coalition to which that party belongs such that it affords this party more possibilities to form an alternative winning coalition than any of the other members of the coalition. I present empirical evidence showing that an allocation of seats in a parliament is biased toward the high frequency occurrence of a dominant party and the low frequency occurrence of a dictator. If a dominant party forms a cabinet coalition, and if that cabinet coalition has a majority in parliament, then the dominant party tends to form a coalition which it dominates.

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  • Artyom Jelnov, 2017. "Existence of Dominant Players and their Role in the Formation of a Cabinet Coalition," International Game Theory Review (IGTR), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 19(01), pages 1-9, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:igtrxx:v:19:y:2017:i:01:n:s0219198917500050
    DOI: 10.1142/S0219198917500050
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