these issues. We derive conditions under which politicians flip-flop, voting according to their policy preferences at the … beginning of their terms, but in line with the preferences of single-issue minorities as they approach re-election. To assess …'s predictions, election proximity has a pro-gun effect on Democratic senators and a pro-environment effect on Republican senators …

’ behavior is limited. In this paper, we fully characterize the set of strictly perfect voting equilibria in large three …-candidate majority runoff elections. Considering all possible distributions of preference orderings and intensities, we prove that only …) neither sincere voting by all voters, nor push over tactics (i.e. supporters of the front-runner voting for a less …

these issues. We derive conditions under which politicians flip-flop, voting according to their policy preferences at the … beginning of their terms, but in line with the preferences of single-issue minorities as they approach re-election. To assess …'s predictions, election proximity has a pro-gun effect on Democratic senators and a pro-environment effect on Republican senators …