“This book takes up a topic that those of us studying coalition governments have come increasingly to realize is vital. The empirical work in this book fills a crucial gap, and I am sure that comparativists of all stripes will want to read this work to understand this phenomenon.”
—Frances Rosenbluth, Yale University
“The Logic of Pre-Electoral Coalition Formation is a model of research that is well designed and extremely well communicated. It has changed the way I think about the formation of parties and party systems. I will no longer be able to think about why parties are the sizes they are, or why countries have the number of parties they do, without considering the options that small parties have to form pre-electoral coalitions while keeping their own identity as small parties.”
—Kathleen Bawn, University of California–Los Angeles