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The Duration of Cabinet Formation Processes in Western Multi-Party Democracies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1998

DANIEL DIERMEIER  and
PETER VAN ROOZENDAAL
DANIEL DIERMEIER
Affiliation:
F. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, North Western University
PETER VAN ROOZENDAAL
Affiliation:
Netherlands Court of Audit, The Hague
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Abstract

Strategic models of coalition bargaining formation have demonstrated the importance of institutional features for an understanding of cabinet formation in West European democracies. Yet little 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 dataset of 304 government formations in thirteen multi-party democracies. The results are consistent with a bargaining approach under incomplete information.

Type
Research Article
Information
British Journal of Political Science , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , October 1998 , pp. 609 - 626
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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