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Calvo, Emilio; Lasaga, J. Javier - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 9 (1997) 4, pp. 477-501

In this paper a method is offered for calculating the power of political parties in the Spanish parliament. This is a modification of the Shapley-Shubik index which allows the ideological affinities between parties to be taken into account. It extends Myerson's model of games with restricted...

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Proportional Representation and Strategic Voters

Slinko, Arkadii; White, Shaun - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 22 (2010) 3, pp. 301-332

demonstrate that rounding creates not only incentives but also disincentives for strategic voting. …

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Do Parties Benefit from Electoral Manipulation? Electoral Laws and Heresthetics in Poland, 1989-93

Kaminski, Marek M. - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 14 (2002) 3, pp. 325-358

Electoral reforms had profound political consequences for post-communist Poland. The majoritarian system helped to accelerate the fall of communism, while later changes to the electoral law helped the former communists reclaim power. Despite the high stakes and top priority given to electoral...

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Proximity, Directionality, and the Riddle of Relative Party Extremeness

Warwick, Paul V. - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 16 (2004) 3, pp. 263-287

Using survey data on European countries, this paper examines the degree of correspondence in left-right policy positions between political parties and the citizens who vote for them through the prism of two competing views on what the ideal correspondence should be. The views are proximity...

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Direction and Uncertainty in a Model of Issue Voting

Macdonald, Stuart Elaine; Rabinowitz, George - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 5 (1993) 1, pp. 61-87

We extend the directional theory of issue voting from a strictly deterministic model to a model which incorporates …

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Adaptive Models and Electoral Instability

Marchi, Scott de - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 11 (1999) 3, pp. 393-419

The spatial model of voting is a benchmark in theories purporting to explain political behavior. Underlying the spatial …

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Rational Voters and Strategic Voting

Ordeshook, Peter C.; Zeng, Langche - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 9 (1997) 2, pp. 167-187

Is the rational-choice paradigm more than a mere tautology when applied to the study of voting or can it generate … largely a consumptive one, we also establish that once in the voting booth, voters act strategically in precisely the ways … predicted by a Downsian model of voting. That is, although expected-utility calculations and the like and little to our …

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Would the Borda Count Have Avoided the Civil War?

Tabarrok, Alexander; Spector, Lee - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 11 (1999) 2, pp. 261-288

plausibly represent the will of the voters or would a different voting system have represented their preferences more accurately …, we are able to show, in a single figure, the outcome of every positional voting system, as well as all possible approval … voting outcomes. By comparing the outcome under plurality rule to the outcomes which would have occurred under other voting …

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A Spatial Theory of Ideology

Hinich, Melvin J.; Munger, Michael C. - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 4 (1992) 1, pp. 5-30

In the spatial model of politics voters choose the candidates closest to them in weighted Euclidean distance, and candidates seek to compete by positioning and repositioning themselves in and n-dimensional policy space. This model has recently come under attack from a number of scholars who...

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Proportional Representation

Potthoff, Richard F.; Brams, Steven J. - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 10 (1998) 2, pp. 147-178

Using a recent article by Monroe as a springboard, we extend and generalize his system of proportional representation (PR) by developing a general method for determining a set of winners from the ballots. Central to our analysis is the use of integer programming, which is a type of linear...

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