Voters in elections under plurality rule face relatively straightforward incentives. In
proportional representation systems, voters face more complex incentives as electoral …

Many believe that equality of opportunity will be achieved when the prospects of children no
longer depend upon the wealth and education of their parents. The institution through which …

Theoretical analyses of party positions commonly assume that parties act as teams to
maximize their legislative representation. This assumption runs counter to another line of …

This paper considers term lengths in a representative democracy where the political issue
divides the population on the left–right scale. Parties are ideologically different and better …

We introduce primaries—both closed and open—into a Downsian model of two-party
electoral competition allowing the two candidates in each party's primary to differ in valence …

Given a set of alternatives with multiple attributes, I characterize the set of preference profiles
that are representable by weighted versions of a class of utility functions indexed by a …

We develop and test predictions about the factors determining the competitiveness of
elections to the US Senate. To do so, we deliberately abstract away from candidate-specific …

This article studies the effects of bandwagon and underdog on the political equilibrium of
two-party competition models. We adapt for voter conformism the generalized Wittman …

This paper examines the role of coalition formation in the empirically observed negative
correlation between employment protection and unemployment benefit. We study an …

Рассматривается модель эндогенного формирования коали ций в больших множествах
игроков (агентов). Предпочтения каждого агента характеризуются его идеальной …