ST 04 - Comportamento Político Presidential Coattails in
ST 04 - Comportamento Político Presidential Coattails in

... presidential candidates must appeal to the median voter, regardless of the position of their own parties in the ideological spectrum (Samuels 2002). From this, one can infer that, even if voters cast votes on a partisan basis and support the parties of their preferred presidential coalition in the ...
The Development of American Political Parties
The Development of American Political Parties

Coalition government

A coalition government is a cabinet of a parliamentary government in which several political parties cooperate, reducing the dominance of any one party within that coalition. The usual reason given for this arrangement is that no party on its own can achieve a majority in the parliament. A coalition government might also be created in a time of national difficulty or crisis, for example during wartime, or economic crisis, to give a government the high degree of perceived political legitimacy, or collective identity it desires while also playing a role in diminishing internal political strife. In such times, parties have formed all-party coalitions (national unity governments, grand coalitions). If a coalition collapses, a confidence vote is held or a motion of no confidence is taken.