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Coalition Formation

Coalition Formation is a political and strategic process in which distinct actors or groups negotiate and unite to achieve collective goals within decision-making institutions, distinguished by the interplay of electoral incentives, rational choice, and institutional constraints across the research areas of Electoral Politics, Evolutionary Psychology, Game Theory, Legislative Behavior, and Public Choice Theory.

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The Theory of Political Coalitions

Burton R. Brazil, William S. Riker · The Western Political Quarterly · 1963 · 2.1K citations

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A Behavioral Theory of Competitive Political Parties

American Journal of Political Science · 1990 · 1.7K citations

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The Theory of Political Coalitions.

Alfred J. Hotz, William H. Riker · Midwest Journal of Political Science · 1963 · 1.5K citations

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Job Matching, Coalition Formation, and Gross Substitutes

Alexander S. Kelso, Vincent P. Crawford · Econometrica · 1982 · 1.4K citations

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Financial intermediary-coalitions

John H. Boyd, Edward C. Prescott · Journal of Economic Theory · 1986 · 1.4K citations

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    Zhu Han

    University of Houston, United States

    26 publications · 3.1K citations

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    Nicholas R. Jennings

    University of Southampton, United Kingdom

    23 publications · 1.6K citations

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    Walid Saad

    Virginia Tech, United States

    23 publications · 3K citations

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    Talal Rahwan

    University of Warsaw, Poland

    17 publications · 1.2K citations

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    Marc Debus

    University of Mannheim, Germany

    16 publications · 1.1K citations

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  1. University of Southampton

    Southampton, United Kingdom

    26 h-index

    75 publications

    4.5K citations

  2. University of Houston

    Houston, United States

    24 h-index

    33 publications

    3.8K citations

  3. Northwestern University

    Evanston, United States

    22 h-index

    33 publications

    2.6K citations

  4. University of Mannheim

    Mannheim, Germany

    21 h-index

    34 publications

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  5. New York University

    New York, United States

    20 h-index

    26 publications

    2.2K citations

  6. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    20 h-index

    28 publications

    2.7K citations

  7. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    20 h-index

    30 publications

    2.1K citations

  8. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    19 h-index

    46 publications

    4.4K citations

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  1. American Political Science Review

    48 publications · 5.4K citations

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  2. European Journal of Political Research

    47 publications · 4K citations

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  3. American Journal of Political Science

    AJPS · 42 publications · 7K citations

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  4. Party Politics

    45 publications · 2.1K citations

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  5. British Journal of Political Science

    37 publications · 4.3K citations

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