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As Chapter 1 has indicated, the existing literature on coalition formation is split between rational choice and inductive approaches, which use radically different research methods for studying the phenomenon. Scholars in the rational choice paradigm take a quantitative approach to exploring coalition formation, while the inductivists generally use qualitative methods.
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Ştefuriuc, I. (2013). Research Design — Concepts, Methods and Country Selection. In: Government Formation in Multi-Level Settings. Comparative Territorial Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137300744_3
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