| Article ID: | iaor2009572 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 158 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 5 |
| End Page Number: | 20 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2008 |
| Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
| Authors: | Eklund Patrik, Rusinowska Agnieszka, Swart Harrie de |
In this paper, a model of political consensus is introduced. Parties try to reach consensus in forming a government. A government is defined as a pair consisting of a winning coalition and a policy supported by this coalition, where a policy consists of policies on given issues. A party evaluates all governments the party belongs to with respect to some criteria. We allow the criteria to be of unequal importance to a party. These criteria concern winning coalitions and policy issues.