A Unified Theory of Party Competition
Title | A Unified Theory of Party Competition PDF eBook |
Author | James F. Adams |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2005-03-21 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780521544931 |
The authors explain how parties and candidates position themselves on the Left-Right ideological dimension and other issue dimensions. Their unified theoretical approach to voter behavior and party strategies takes into account voter preferences, voter's partisan attachments, expected turnout, and the location of the political status quo. The approach, tested through extensive cross-national analysis, includes studies of the plurality-based two-party contests in the U.S. and multiple-party competition in France, Britain, and Norway.
A Unified Theory of Party Competition
Title | A Unified Theory of Party Competition PDF eBook |
Author | James F. Adams |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2005-03-21 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781139444002 |
This book integrates spatial and behavioral perspectives - in a word, those of the Rochester and Michigan schools - into a unified theory of voter choice and party strategy. The theory encompasses both policy and non-policy factors, effects of turnout, voter discounting of party promises, expectations of coalition governments, and party motivations based on policy as well as office. Optimal (Nash equilibrium) strategies are determined for alternative models for presidential elections in the US and France, and for parliamentary elections in Britain and Norway. These polities cover a wide range of electoral rules, number of major parties, and governmental structures. The analyses suggest that the more competitive parties generally take policy positions that come close to maximizing their electoral support, and that these vote-maximizing positions correlate strongly with the mean policy positions of their supporters.
A Unified Theory of Voting
Title | A Unified Theory of Voting PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Merrill |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 1999-09-13 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780521665490 |
Professors Merrill and Grofman develop a unified model that incorporates voter motivations and assesses its empirical predictions--for both voter choice and candidate strategy--in the United States, Norway, and France. The analyses show that a combination of proximity, direction, discounting, and party ID are compatible with the mildly but not extremely divergent policies that are characteristic of many two-party and multiparty electorates. All of these motivations are necessary to understand the linkage between candidate issue positions and voter preferences.
Political Competition
Title | Political Competition PDF eBook |
Author | John E ROEMER |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 349 |
Release | 2009-06-30 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0674042859 |
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.
Ideas of Power
Title | Ideas of Power PDF eBook |
Author | Verlan Lewis |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2019-05-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108476791 |
This groundbreaking book presents a new understanding of ideological change. It shows how and why America's political parties have evolved.
A Behavioral Theory of Elections
Title | A Behavioral Theory of Elections PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Bendor |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2011-02-06 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 069113507X |
Most theories of elections assume that voters and political actors are fully rational. This title provides a behavioral theory of elections based on the notion that all actors - politicians as well as voters - are only boundedly rational.
A Theory of Party Competition
Title | A Theory of Party Competition PDF eBook |
Author | David Bruce Robertson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Democracy |
ISBN | 9780608176772 |