Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Political Competition over a Single Issue: The Case of Certainty 13
6. 2. Modeling Party Uncertainty 38
7. 3. Unidimensional Policy Spaces with Uncertainty 52
8. 4. Applications of the Wittman Model 73
9. 5. Endogenous Parties: The Unidimensional Case 90
10. 6. Political Competition over Several Issues: The Case of Certainty 103
11. 7. Multidimensional Issue Spaces and Uncertainty: The Downs Model 124
12. 8. Party Factions and Nash Equilibrium 145
13. 9. The Democratic Political Economy of Progressive Taxation 172
14. 10.Why the Poor Do Not Expropriate the Rich in Democracies 189
15. 11. Distributive Class Politics and the Political Geography of Interwar Europe 209
16. 12. A Three-Class Model of American Politics 251
17. 13. Endogenous Parties with Multidimensional Competition 259
18. 14. Toward a Model of Coalition Government 281
19. Mathematical Appendix 309
20. References 323
21. Index 327