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We develop a dynamic model of political competition. Each party has a policymotivated ideological wing and an office-motivated opportunistic wing. A blockade arises if inner-party conflict stops policy implementation. We use this model to study whether early elections should be used to overcome...
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Why do state legislators vote the way they do? Which influence is predominant: ideology, party, or public opinion? The … state level? Using new data on legislator ideology and votes from 2011-2015, I show evidence that legislator ideology was by …. Moreover, I show the influence of ideology is heterogenous by issue area and bill …
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By relying on survey-data from the CSES (Comparative Study of Electoral Systems) project, we run a number of simulated scenarios assuming that parties are interested in vote-maximizing, and we compute for each election the distribution of party ideological positions that corresponds to a Nash...
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How can office-seeking politicians or managers be aligned with social welfare or firm welfare, given that such agents have a suboptimal incentive to cater to majority preferences in situations with low participation costs and to elite preferences in situations with high participation costs? In...
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. Despite the importance of ideology in party competition, the relationships between parties and voters in developing … democracies and how these are different from, or similar to, that of established democracies with respect to ideology have …
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We develop a model of elections in which parties choose their ideological position and the ideology of their candidates …
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from their party's election programs. Nonetheless, their ability to conduct ad-hoc adaptations is limited. The theory I …
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It is a common fear in many countries that ideological parties will come to power through elections but will implement extreme policies and even end the democratic regime. Many countries cope with this problem by overriding the election results when such parties are elected. In a two-period...
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