Voters may penalize parties for the compromises made during coalition governance.
Data & Methods: Data from six parliamentary democracies (Iceland, Italy, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, and Israel).
Key Findings: Voters discount policy accomplishments and promises of compromising parties. This effect is stronger among former cabinet supporters and politically disinterested citizens.
Why It Matters? These findings highlight the electoral consequences of compromise perception in multiparty systems.
| The Electoral Implications of Coalition Policy-Making was authored by David Fortunato. It was published by Cambridge in BJPS in 2019. |
