Bernhardt, Dan; Campuzano, Larissa; Squintani, Francesco; … - In: Games and Economic Behavior 66 (2009) 2, pp. 685-707
We study the role of parties in a citizen-candidate repeated-elections model in which voters have incomplete information. We first identify a novel "party competition effect" in a setting with two opposing parties. Compared with "at large" selection of candidates, party selection makes...