Coalition Governance with Incomplete Information

• Published in: The Journal of politics Vol. 81; no. 3; pp. 923 - 936
• Main Authors: Dragu, Tiberiu, Laver, Michael
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 01.07.2019; The University of Chicago Press
• Subjects: Cabinet; Coalition governments; Compromises; Decision making; Economic models; Governance; Information; Jurisdiction; Policy making; Power; Preferences; Public policy; principal-agent problems; coalition governance; mechanism design; incomplete information; cabinet decision making

How can coalition cabinets make policy decisions if the policy preferences of the coalition partners are private information? We use a mechanism design approach to study the important process of coalition governance in this setting. We show that, among all possible mechanisms that could structure de...