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This paper provides a theoretical model of electoral competition in a multidimensional political arena with a heterogenous electorate and politically active interest groups. The emerging pattern of movement in policy platforms is fundamentally different to the concept of convergence proposed by...
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This paper studies a model of how political parties use resources for campaigning to inform voters. We show existence of equilibrium under mild assumptions for an arbitrary number of parties. The main result is that if the parties are more extreme, then they spend less resources on campaigning...
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We identify the conditions under which voters can induce political parties to collect information and to select policies which are optimal from the representative voter’s point of view. We show that when parties are office motivated the voting rule should encourage parties to collect...
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A well-known rationale for representative democracy is that direct democracy leads to a free-rider problem as to the collection of information. A problem with this rationale is that it takes for granted that representatives collect information. In this paper we examine whether or not electoral...
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Die Grünen befinden sich seit Monaten in einem Umfragehoch. Derzeit erscheint es nicht ausgeschlossen, dass die Partei nach den anstehenden Landtagswahlen erstmals einen Ministerpräsidenten oder eine Regierende Bürgermeisterin stellt. Die Spekulation hierüber wird vor allem durch...
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Die AfD war bei der Bundestagswahl in Ostdeutschland etwa doppelt so erfolgreich wie in Westdeutschland. Beobachter machten dafür bisher vor allem wirtschaftliche Faktoren verantwortlich. Wir können dagegen zeigen, dass nicht das ökonomische Ungerechtigkeitsgefühl, sondern die Ablehnung von...
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