Glazer, Amihai; Lohmann, Susanne - In: Public Choice 99 (1999) 3-4, pp. 377-94
By committing policy, an incumbent in effect disowns an issue; when she maintains policy flexibility, the issue remains electorally salient. Electoral competition shapes political commitment decisions and collapses the multidimensional issue space into a low-dimensional space of electorally...