Talk:Coalition
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How do we link Coalition to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Organizations ??
see the SchoolForge stub —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Quinobi (talk • contribs) 23:48, September 18, 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Alliance
What's the difference in general, if any, between "coalition" and "alliance"? A wiki search on the two gives fundamentally different results. 195.24.29.51 14:20, 9 November 2006 (UTC) coalition is also the name of a punk rock band. who have been together now for about a month (they rock it) Will someone ad to this? (anonomus)
- Well an alliance is any general agreement between two actors/organisations/parties, in politics a coalition is specific and refers to the sharing of power between two parties. For instance two political parties might come to an "alliance" where they agree to support each other's proposals in parliament, but a coalition would be the two parties joining together to create a government.
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- Annoyingly the two terms sometimes get used to distinguish between groups. For example the news feed for the current Japanese general election calls the governing parties "the Coalition" and the opposition ones "the Alliance". I believe there was a coalition in one of the Australian states that was called "the Alliance", to distinguish it from the regular "Coalition". Timrollpickering (talk) 14:02, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Zoology
A coalition is also the collective noun for a group of cheetahs. I don't know if it is used for any other animals. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ennisj (talk • contribs) 05:47, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
[edit] UK Coalition Example
Is the example of the current coalition in the UK necessary? Such coalitions happen all the time in European politics and the addition of a very recent example makes it sound otherwise. Rucha58 02:43, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
