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The Duverger-Demsetz Perspective on Electoral Competitiveness and Fragmentation: With Application to the Canadian Parliamentary System, 1867-2011

Ferris, J Stephen; Winer, Stanley L.; Grofman, Bernard - 2016

We combine Duverger’s Law (1954) with Demsetz’s (1968) theory of natural monopoly to provide a novel perspective on … Duverger’s Law. We provide support for this Duverger-Demsetz perspective by studying the relationship between the concentration … depends on the contestability of elections, which declines as party fragmentation exceeds the long run level predicted by …

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Electoral competition and endogenous political institutions : quasi-experimental evidence from Germany

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2015

Do established parties change political institutions to disadvantage smaller, nonmainstream parties if the latters ́electoral prospects improve? We study this question with a natural experiment from the German federal state of Hesse. The experiment is the abolishment of an explicit electoral...

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Electoral competition and endogenous political institutions : quasi-experimental evidence from Germany ; conference paper

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2014

Do established parties change political institutions to disadvantage smaller, non-mainstream parties if the latters' electoral prospects improve? We study this question with a natural experiment from the German federal State of Hesse. The experiment is the abolishment of an explicit electoral...

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Democracy and Regulation : The Effects of Electoral Competition on Infrastructure Investments

Schram, Arthur J. H. C. - 2013

This paper investigates infrastructure investment in markets where regulation is subject to varying degrees of manipulation by elected politicians. Based on a model of price regulation in a market with increasing demand and long-term returns on investment we construct a multi-period game between...

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A micro perspective on political competition : electoral availability in the European electorates

Wagner, Aiko - 2017

competition. As existing research conceptualizes political competition mainly as a macro- or party-level phenomenon, the micro … perspective remains underdeveloped and, therefore, an important dimension of political competition, the availability of votes, is … ignored. We introduce and discuss an individualized measure of electoral competition that is based on propensities to vote as …

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Negative campaigning in a probabilistic voting model

Brueckner, Jan K.; Lee, Kangoh - 2013

This paper extends the small existing theoretical literature on negative campaigning, building on work by Harrington and Hess (1996). While their analysis explores the determinants of negative campaign spending using a classic spatial voting model, this paper relies instead on a probabilistic...

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