11. Using Theoretical Models to Analyze Real Party Systems

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Part One: Preliminaries
6. 1. Modeling Multiparty Competition 3
7. 2. Spatial Dynamics of Political Competition 15
8. 3. A Baseline ABM of Party Competition 28
9. 4. Systematically Interrogating Agent-Based Models 56
10. Part Two: The Basic Model
11. 5. Benchmarking the Baseline Model 85
12. 6. Endogenous Parties, Interaction of Different Decision Rules 106
13. 7. New Decision Rules, New Rule Features 132
14. Part Three: Extensions and Empirics
15. 8. The Evolutionary Dynamics of Decision Rule Selection 159
16. 9. Nonpolicy Factors in Party Competition 183
17. 10. Party Leaders with Policy Preferences 206
18. 11. Using Theoretical Models to Analyze Real Party Systems 228
19. 12. In Conclusion 258
20. References 267
21. Index 275