Glaeser, Edward L.; Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M.; Shapiro, … - In: The quarterly journal of economics (2004)
marriage. Religious extremism in the U.S. appears to be strategically targeted to win elections, since party platforms diverge … from attracting the median voter, why do vote-maximizing politicians veer off into extremism? In this paper, we find that … strategic extremism depends on an important intensive margin where politicians want to induce their core constituents to vote …