Editing Coalition (section)

=== Government and politics === 
{{see also|Coalition government}}
{{party politics}} 
[[Coalition government]] is an alternative model to a [[majority government]], the latter being prevalent in winner-take-all [[first-past-the-post]] electoral systems that favor clear distinctions between winners and losers.<ref>{{Cite book|title=International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences|last=Darity|first=William|publisher=Macmillan Reference|year=2008|isbn=978-0028659657|location=USA}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/coalition|title=coalition Meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary|website=dictionary.cambridge.org|access-date=5 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026072626/http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/coalition|archive-date=26 October 2017}}</ref> Not only can coalitions of legislative groups form governments in [[parliamentary systems]], they can also form in divisions of power.{{Clarify|reason=What system is a division of power?|date=July 2023}} Most typical analyses of coalitions in politics deal with the formation of multiparty [[cabinets]] in parliamentary regimes.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|title=International Encyclopedia of Political Science|author-link1=Josep Colomer|last=Colomer|first=Josep|publisher=Sage Publications|year=2011|isbn=9781412959636|editor-last=Badie|editor-first=Bertrand|location=Thousand Oaks, CA|pages=287|editor-last2=Berg-Schlosser|editor-first2=Dirk|editor-last3=Morlino|editor-first3=Leonardo}}</ref> In Germany, every administration has been a multiparty coalition since the conclusion of the Second World War{{Snd}}an example of coalition government creation in a parliamentary system. When different winning coalitions can be formed in a parliament, the party composition of the government may depend on the bargaining power of each party and the presence or lack of a [[dominant party]].<ref name=":2" />

Coalitions are similar to [[parliamentary group]]s. Fluid coalitions, which change with each vote, exist in the [[European Parliament]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://aei.pitt.edu/97364/1/wp75_marie.pdf |title=European Parliament: Is the grand coalition really a thing of the past? |first=Awenig |last=Marié |date=2019 }}</ref> and [[Federal Assembly (Switzerland)|Swiss parliament]] to pass legislation.