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Political Competition
Theory and Applications
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English
Published/Copyright:
2001
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John Roemer presents a unified and rigorous theory of political competition between parties and he models the theory under many specifications, including whether parties are policy oriented or oriented toward winning, whether they are certain or uncertain about voter preferences, and whether the policy space is uni- or multidimensional.
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Roemer characterizes—correctly—the traditional Downsian model of political competition as one modeling competition between ‘opportunistic politicians’ who themselves have no policy preferences and who choose instead to adopt positions that appeal to the preferences of the optimum number of voters. This, he says, is a misguided model, easy to use but empirically and theoretically inaccurate and producing meaningless results. He offers instead a more complex model…based on ‘parties in conflict,’ which have real policy preferences. Well written… [A] fine contribution to the literature on spatial modeling.
-- M. Berheide Choice
-- M. Berheide Choice
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Contents
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Preface
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Introduction
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1. Political Competition over a Single Issue: The Case of Certainty
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2. Modeling Party Uncertainty
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3. Unidimensional Policy Spaces with Uncertainty
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4. Applications of the Wittman Model
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5. Endogenous Parties: The Unidimensional Case
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6. Political Competition over Several Issues: The Case of Certainty
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7. Multidimensional Issue Spaces and Uncertainty: The Downs Model
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8. Party Factions and Nash Equilibrium
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9. The Democratic Political Economy of Progressive Taxation
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10.Why the Poor Do Not Expropriate the Rich in Democracies
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11. Distributive Class Politics and the Political Geography of Interwar Europe
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12. A Three-Class Model of American Politics
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13. Endogenous Parties with Multidimensional Competition
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14. Toward a Model of Coalition Government
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Mathematical Appendix
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References
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Index
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