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6 Jun 2007
This paper researches whether social cleavages affect the number of candidates or parties when electoral institutions are permissive. The authors incorporate citizen-candidate social identities into game-theoretic models of electoral competition under both plurality and majority-runoff electoral rules. Their results indicate that social group demographics can affect the equilibrium number of candidates, but even in non-permissive systems.
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Author | Eric S Dickson, Kenneth Scheve |
Series | Leitner Program Working Papers |
Issue | 7 |
Publisher | Leitner Program in International & Comparative Political Economy |
Copyright | © 2007 Leitner Program |