Bargaining and Bureaucracy: Does Administrative Capacity Influence Government Formation in Parliamentary Democracies?

• In Event: State Capacity

Brief Overview

Drawing from Public Administration and Comparative Political Institutions, we argue that government formation is a function of complexity and uncertainty, both of which are influenced by the size or capacity of the bureaucracy.

Authors

• Francesco Bromo, University of Oxford

• Mallory E. Compton, The Ohio State University