Coalition Formation Theories Revisited: An Empirical Investigation of Aumann's Hypothesis

• Main Authors: Chua, Vincent, Felsenthal, Dan S.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2006
• Subjects: Coalitions; voting power; Political Economy
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/619; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/1618/viewcontent/CoalitionFormationTheoriesRevisited_May2006_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In one of the earliest attempts to examine the effect of a priori voting power on actual political phenomena, Riker (1959) looked at changes in party affiliation in the French National Assembly in 1953–54, and used these data to test the hypothesis that deputies who switched parties were seeking thereby to increase their a priori voting power. His findings were negative, or at best inconclusive.