saritainPhD

Hello all! Hope this isn't a stupid question/hope this is the right place in the forum, but I'm struggling with the issue of endogeneity. I know the definition, and can understand it well enough in certain contexts...but not all. I'm struggling with the following paragraph from an article in the Oxford Handbook of Political Economy: "Treating parliamentary parties as endogenous coalitions of parliamentarians is intellectually liberating, not just because it gives us an interesting way to analyze the self-evidently important politics of single-party majority governments, but also because it gives us analytical leverage on the legislative role of opposition parties in parliamentary democracies." What does 'endogenous' mean in this sense? In simple, plain terms please!! ? Much appreciated.