Assess students' ability to apply game-theoretic models to analyze coalition formation and cabinet bargaining in multiparty parliamentary systems. Scope includes strategic entry/exit and portfolio allocation, minimal winning versus surplus coalitions, party preferences and payoffs, stability concepts (Nash equilibria, core, bargaining sets), sequential and multilateral bargaining models (Rubinstein, Nash, Shapley value), and institutional constraints (investiture rules, agenda-setting). Tasks: compute equilibria, predict coalition outcomes under varying rules, evaluate policy implications, and propose mechanism/design remedies.