Two politicians in search of a victory: coalition formation in the new and old world Newell, JL Title Two politicians in search of a victory: coalition formation in the new and old world Authors Newell, JL Type Conference or Workshop Item URL This version is available at: http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/1639/ Published Date 2008 USIR is a digital collection of the research output of the University of Salford. Where copyright permits, full text material held in the repository is made freely available online and can be read, downloaded and copied for non-commercial private study or research purposes. Please check the manuscript for any further copyright restrictions. For more information, including our policy and submission procedure, please contact the Repository Team at:
[email protected]. Two politicians in search of a victory: Coalition formation in the new and old world JAMES L. NEWELL European Studies Research Institute University of Salford Salford M5 4WT
[email protected] Paper prepared for presentation to the ASMI and The American University of Rome conference on the Italian Elections, American University of Rome, 4 April 2008. 1 Two politicians in search of a victory: Coalition formation in the new and old world JAMES L. NEWELL Introduction Parties’ decisions about the other forces with which they would ally themselves were widely thought to have been unusually important to the outcome of the 2006 general election in view of the seeming narrowness of the gap between the two main coalitions. For example, in a piece