Arbeitspapier
Pre-Electoral Coalitions: Insights into the Creation of Political Parties
We evaluate the causes and consequences of pre-electoral coalitions (PECs). In Finland, local elections use a proportional representation system with open lists, and parties may form joint lists. We document that PECs are more common between parties of equal size and similar ideology, and when elections are more disproportional or involve more parties. Using both difference-in-differences and density discontinuity designs we document that voters punish coalescing parties, especially if they are ideologically diverse, and also respond to PECs by targeting personal votes strategically within the PECs. Moreover, small parties become more likely to acquire political leadership positions. Finally, PECs seem to be formed also with the particular purpose of influencing the overall distribution of political power: they lead to more dispersed seat distributions and prevent absolute majorities in close elections. Thus, voter ideology and electoral rules create natural boundaries for the parties, but the party formateurs also consider wider impacts.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Discussion paper ; No. 143
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- Thema
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bargaining power
local elections
multi - party systems
open - list PR system
pre - electoral coalitions
strategic voting
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Hortala-Vallve, Rafael
Meriläinen, Jaakko
Tukiainen, Janne
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Aboa Centre for Economics (ACE)
- (wo)
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Turku
- (wann)
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2021
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Hortala-Vallve, Rafael
- Meriläinen, Jaakko
- Tukiainen, Janne
- Aboa Centre for Economics (ACE)
Entstanden
- 2021
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