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A Unified Theory of Party Competition |
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Author: Adams, James / Merrill III, Samuel / Grofman, Bernard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Adobe PDF
Content Language: English
ISBN: 9780511113901
Print ISBN: 9780521836449
Size: 2,333 KB
Pages: 332
Publication Date: 2005-05-31
Category:
Political Science > General
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Available Worldwide
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Print Interval (Days): 30
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This book integrates spatial and behavioral perspectives - in a word, those of the Rochester and Michigan schools - into a unified theory of voter choice and party strategy. The theory encompasses both policy and non-policy factors, effects of turnout, voter discounting of party promises, expectations of coalition governments, and party motivations based on policy as well as office. Optimal (Nash equilibrium) strategies are determined for alternative models for presidential elections in the US and France, and for parliamentary elections in Britain and Norway. These polities cover a wide range of electoral rules, number of major parties, and governmental structures. The analyses suggest that the more competitive parties generally take policy positions that come close to maximizing their electoral support, and that these vote-maximizing positions correlate strongly with the mean policy positions of their supporters.
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