Models of Multiparty Electoral Competition (Fundamentals of Pure & Applied Economics) - Softcover

Shepsle, Kenneth A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3718650762 ISBN 13: 9783718650767

Publisher: Harwood Academic Pub, 1991

Synopsis

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Synopsis

This monograph surveys the formal literature on multiparty electoral competition. The inspiration for these models comes from Hotelling's famous model of duopoly. Part 1 provides a theoretical orientation to a set of spatial location problems, common to elections and industrial organizations. Part 2 explores spatial competition, both economic and political, with a fixed set of agents, (firms and parties respectively). Part 3 surveys models in which the decision of agents to participate are endogenized. The final Part considers historically important problems relevant to political competition: the relationship between electoral arrangements and the equilibrium number of competitors and problems of forming governments in multiparty parliaments.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harwood Academic Pub
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3718650762
• ISBN 13: 9783718650767
• Binding: Paperback