Political Competition : : Theory and Applications /

Political Competition : : Theory and Applications / / John E. Roemer.

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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 pol...

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Roemer, John E.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021]
©2001
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (349 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Political Competition over a Single Issue: The Case of Certainty
  • 2. Modeling Party Uncertainty
  • 3. Unidimensional Policy Spaces with Uncertainty
  • 4. Applications of the Wittman Model
  • 5. Endogenous Parties: The Unidimensional Case
  • 6. Political Competition over Several Issues: The Case of Certainty
  • 7. Multidimensional Issue Spaces and Uncertainty: The Downs Model
  • 8. Party Factions and Nash Equilibrium
  • 9. The Democratic Political Economy of Progressive Taxation
  • 10.Why the Poor Do Not Expropriate the Rich in Democracies
  • 11. Distributive Class Politics and the Political Geography of Interwar Europe
  • 12. A Three-Class Model of American Politics
  • 13. Endogenous Parties with Multidimensional Competition
  • 14. Toward a Model of Coalition Government
  • Mathematical Appendix
  • References
  • Index

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