competing in a binary election may purchase votes in a sequential bidding game via up-front binding payments and/or campaign … promises (platforms) that are contingent upon the outcome of the election. We analyze the role of the parties’ budget …

compete in a binary election and may purchase votes in a sequential bidding game via up-front binding payments and/or campaign … promises (platforms) that are contingent upon the outcome of the elec-tion. We analyze the role of the parties.and voters …

that are in opposition to their policy preferences. This results in the election of representatives who do not correspond … exactly to the voters' own views. An alternative voting procedure to avoid this type of election failure is proposed in … Wahl-O-Mat, which asks the user a number of questions on topical policy issues; the computer program, drawing on all the …

cycles whether in their political versions or in their partisan versions. Given that the election results for the main … analyse the results corresponding to the last legislative election that took place in Portugal, from the partisan viewpoint … link between voters' ideology and the election results obtained by the two main parties in Portugal. …