Osborne, Martin J.; Tourky, Rabee - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 6 (2008) 5, pp. 974-1005
We study the implications of economies of party size in a model of party formation. We show that when the policy space is one-dimensional, candidates form at most two parties. This result does not depend on the magnitude of the economies of party size or sensitively on the nature of the...