What Explains Inter-Party Cooperation and Conflict?

• In Event: Understanding Intra- and Inter-Party Cooperation

Brief Overview

Why are some party pairs more cooperative than others? Why does their behavior vary over time? This paper addresses these questions using a dataset containing codings of media reports on elite interactions from 13 western democracies since 2001.

Authors

• James Adams, University of California-Davis

• Simon Weschle, Syracuse University

• Christopher Wlezien, The University of Texas at Austin