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The Duverger-Demsetz perspective on electoral competitiveness and fragmentation : with application to the Canadian parliamentary system, 1867-2011
Ferris, John Stephen; Winer, Stanley L.; Grofman, Bernard - 2016
We combine Duverger's Law (1954) with Demsetz's (1968) theory of natural monopoly to provide a novel perspective on electoral competitiveness in a single member district, plurality rule system. In the framework we develop, competitiveness depends on the contestability of elections, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428344
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Does party competition affect political activism?
Hager, Anselm; Hermle, Johannes; Hensel, Lukas; Roth, … - 2020
Does party competition affect political activism? This paper studies the decision of party supporters to join political … competition can either increase or decrease party activism. To distinguish between these competing predictions, we implemented a … two months after the campaign. Consistent with affective accounts of political activism, we show that increased competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249149
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Negative campaigning in a probabilistic voting model
Brueckner, Jan K.; Lee, Kangoh - 2013
This paper extends the small existing theoretical literature on negative campaigning, building on work by Harrington and Hess (1996). While their analysis explores the determinants of negative campaign spending using a classic spatial voting model, this paper relies instead on a probabilistic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009743849
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A dynamic model of political party equilibrium : the evolution of ENP in Canada, 1870-2015
Ferris, John Stephen; Winer, Stanley L.; Olmstead, … - 2020
at the party level is inversely correlated with uncertainty-based measures of electoral competition, suggesting that … movements in long run ENP closer to 2 are an indicator of more rather than less electoral competition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012238434
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Political competition between differentiated candidates
Krasa, Stefan; Polborn, Mattias - 2009
We introduce a framework of electoral competition in which voters have general preferences over candidates … Nash equilibrium. As a normative criterion, we define competition-efficiency and provide conditions under which the … equilibrium is or is not competition-efficient. -- Multidimensional policy ; voting ; issue ownership ; normative analysis of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808656
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Inverse Campaigning
Konrad, Kai A. - 2003
It can be advantageous for an office motivated party A to spend effort to make it public that a group of voters will lose from party A s policy proposal. Such effort is called inverse campaigning. The inverse campaigning equilibria are described for the case where the two parties can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507668
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Candidate quality
Poutvaara, Panu; Takalo, Tuomas - 2003
We analyze the topical question of how the compensation of elected politicians affects the set of citizens choosing to run. To this end, we develop a sparse and tractable citizen-candidate model of representative democracy with ability differences, informative campaigning and political parties....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404313
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On the size of the winning set in the presence of interest groups
Sadiraj, Vjollca (contributor); Tuinstra, Jan (contributor);  … - 2006
Interest groups are introduced in a spatial model of electoral competition between two political parties. We show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301391
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Strategic campaigns and redistributive politics
Schultz, Christian - 2003
The paper investigates strategic campaigning in a model of redistributive politics in a society with many groups and two parties. Campaigns are informative, and parties can target campaigns to different groups. Voters are uncertain about whether parties fabor special groups. The parties will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514172
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Go divisive or not? : how political campaigns affect turnout
Gennaioli, Caterina - 2010
This paper studies how political competition can lead candidates to strategically increase the salience of specific …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008807631