Pre-election coalition is more common in PR systems than many realize. Its desirability shaped our recommendations in this report: https://apsanet.org/Political-Parties-Report/
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Reconstructionist
The combo of FPTP single member districts, legally weak political parties, and the modern primary election system is that, very bizarrely, American governing coalitions are formed, semi-randomly, before the general election instead of after it
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