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Coalition politics and coalition governments in Africa

The Theory and Practice of Coalition Formation The formation of coalitions before or after elections, whether in presidential, parliamentary or ‘mixed systems’, is usually a manifestation of the absence of a dominant party capable of controlling the majority in a legislative assembly. Therefore, political parties enter into alliances before an election in the hope that in so doing they will stand a better chance of winning an election and subsequently constituting a working majority in parliament. Coalition or alliance, involving formation both before and after elections is more often than not designed to serve the individual and collective interests of the co-operating parties. Sometimes these alliances are opportunistic in character. At other times they are guided by principles and precepts based on the established values and ideologies which the partner parties avow.