This paper investigates the behaviour of a Citizen-Candidate Model in a simple framework with many large constituencies, many policy dimensions, and endogenous coalition formation. A model is simulated in which districts elect representatives who themselves interact to form parties. Competition...

This paper analyzes the role of ethnicity in shaping the character of Kenya's political parties and its party system since 1992. Drawing on a constructivist conception of ethnicity, it uses a framework of comparison derived from Donald Horowitz and distinguishes between three party types: the...

We present a theoretical model of a parliamentary democracy, where party structures, government coalitions and fiscal policies are endogenously determined. The model predicts that, relative to proportional elections, majoritarian elections reduce government spending because they reduce party...

This paper presents a model that reconciles Downsian voting models that assume parties move to the middle, with the political party literature that shows parties as offering distinctly different positions and remaining more extreme than most voters. It argues that in single district plurality...

We present a theoretical model of a parliamentary democracy, where party structures, government coalitions and fiscal policies are endogenously determined. The model predicts that, relative to proportional elections, majoritarian elections reduce government spending because they reduce party...