“…Evidence from recent Austrian, German, and Belgian elections is consistent with this type of voting behavior in multiparty systems (Gschwend and Hooghe 2008;Herrmann 2014;Linhart 2009;. In short, the recent literature indicates that coalition considerations matter above and beyond party considerations for electoral behavior in multiparty systems (e.g., Aldrich et al 2004;Bargsted and Kedar 2009;Blais et al 2006;Duch, May, and Armstrong 2010;Kedar 2011;Meffert and Gschwend 2010). What is less clear, however, is how to identify and estimate the effects of these different considerations.…”