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We know that most people are not well informed about politics. However, some of them use shortcuts to make better decisions with less information. One of those shortcuts in multiparty systems is grouping parties into blocks (Hagevi 2015). However, we do not know if and how citizens group parties into blocks in more complex system where coalitions are independent from the government and change from vote to vote. This is, for example, the case in Switzerland where all major parties agreed to include all of them in the government. Therefore, coalitions do not depend on the government but on the policy. Gaining a better understanding of block thinking helps us to better understand how people decide in a complex information environment. I show that issue salience is an important determinant in block thinking in coalition-by-policy systems in the way that the most salient issue helps people group parties into in favor and against. My research design focuses on the ideal type Switzerland. It is an ideal type, because there are a lot of parties without a changing government coalition. The results, however, have broader implications such as for multiparty presidential systems were coalitions change. I test my theoretical considerations with an experiment by priming issue salience.

1Lucinda

By Friedrich von Schlegel

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel was born in 1772 at Hannover, Holy Roman Empire, to Johann Adolf Schlegel and Johanna Christiane Erdmuthe Hübsch. He attended Jena University and made friends with many of the writers known by his brother August Wilhelm Schlegel. His first book was <i>About the Diotima</i>, written in 1795, and four years later he wrote <i>Lucinda</i>. The translator, Calvin Thomas, called Lucinda a "naughty book", but that was in 1914. I have no idea where it stands now in the world of literature. It was made up of many disconnected parts. - Summary by Craig Campbell