I'm sure you can find more material on the subject from there.
Since I heard this, I have found it very profitable to think of public policy in terms of coalitions.
Interestingly, one of Madison's arguments in favor of union at the Constitutional Convention was what that a United States would create broader coalitions, and thus a more stable government. This was to head off arguments at the time that republics had always been geographically limited, and any large state necessarily tended towards empire. (My source for that is Joseph Ellis, btw.)
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2007/02/bruce_bueno_de.html
I'm sure you can find more material on the subject from there.
Since I heard this, I have found it very profitable to think of public policy in terms of coalitions.
Interestingly, one of Madison's arguments in favor of union at the Constitutional Convention was what that a United States would create broader coalitions, and thus a more stable government. This was to head off arguments at the time that republics had always been geographically limited, and any large state necessarily tended towards empire. (My source for that is Joseph Ellis, btw.)