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Party competition in a heterogeneous electorate – the role of dominant-issue-voters
Bischoff, Ivo - 2003
numerous groups of dominant-issue-voters who base their voting decision primarily on one issue of the political agenda. Parties … movement in policy platforms is fundamentally different to the concept of convergence proposed by the spatial theory of voting …. Rather than the centre of the scale of policy preference, its extreme ends, occupied by dominant-issue-voters, attract the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296558
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Electoral competition in a multidimensional political arena - parallel moves instead of convergence in policy platforms
Bischoff, Ivo - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2003
fundamentally different to the concept of convergence proposed by the spatial theory of voting. Rather than the centre of the scale … of policy preference, its extreme ends, occupied by dominant-issue-voters and interest groups, attract the policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564773
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Determinants of the influence of voters and interest groups on the political decision making process
Bischoff, Ivo - 2001
concessions in favor of voters and interest groups. As any concession causes losses in utility for the party members, the parties … on different groups of voters and interest groups is derived. These concessions are taken as an indicator for the … in this paper helps to determine the political influence of voters and interest groups. The illustrations show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301406
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Determinants of the influence of voters and interest groups on the political decision making process
Bischoff, Ivo - 2001
concessions in favor of voters and interest groups. As any concession causes losses in utility for the party members, the parties … on different groups of voters and interest groups is derived. These concessions are taken as an indicator for the … in this paper helps to determine the political influence of voters and interest groups. The illustrations show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509849
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Do party positions affect the public's policy preferences?
Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2019
voters' preferences. We investigate the reverse effect: Are the electorates' policy preferences responsive to party positions …, implying endogeneity of policy preferences. The information treatment also affects non-partisan swing voters. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011990098
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Do party positions affect the public's policy preferences?
Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2019
voters' preferences. We investigate the reverse effect: Are the electorates' policy preferences responsive to party positions …, implying endogeneity of policy preferences. The information treatment also affects non-partisan swing voters. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012033537
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Do party positions affect the public's policy preferences?
Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2019
voters' preferences. We investigate the reverse effect: Are the electorates' policy preferences responsive to party positions …, implying endogeneity of policy preferences. The information treatment also affects non-partisan swing voters. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011995997
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Lobbying and Compromise
Epstein, Gil S.; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2005
The compromise enhancing effect of lobbying on public policy has been established in two typical settings. In the first, lobbies are assumed to act as 'principals' and the setters of the policy (the candidates in a Downsian electoral competition or the elected policy maker in a citizen-...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261146
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On some of the consequences of being possible to call early elections
Caleiro, António - 2005
This note presents some of the consequences due to the possibility of having early elections. First of all, elections, whether exogenously or endogenously determined, are relevant to challenge the well known neutrality principle of economic policies under rational expectations. Furthermore, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502346
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Winners and losers of early elections : on the welfare implications of political blockades and early elections
Bierbrauer, Felix; Mechtenberg, Lydia - 2008
disadvantage that unsuccessful governments gain additional time in office. This may give rise to a time inconsistency. Voters are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796136