We model the internal game between the leader and the factions of a party, to study the
effect of party leadership on the determinants of electoral success. Factions are of interest or …

The Arab-Palestinian community, which constitutes 20 percent of Israel's population, is an
ethnic minority living mainly in ethnically homogeneous cities and villages. Arab-Palestinian …

Why is an understanding of political competition essential for the study of public economics
and public policy generally? How can political competition be described and understood …

We develop a stochastic model of electoral competition in order to study the economic and
political determinants of trade policy. We model a small open economy with two tradable …

I model an election between a populist candidate with little government experience and high
charisma and a mainstream candidate with much government experience and low charisma …

Combining elements of economic reasoning and political science has proven to be very
useful for understanding the broad variation in economic development around the world. In …

The existence of a multi-party system is one of the most important criterion for assessing the
degree of democratization of a state. In contemporary democratic republics, the multi-party …

This chapter develops a general stochastic model of elections in which the electoral
response is affected by the valence (or quality) of the candidates. In an attempt to explain …

Abstract Models of elections tend to predict that parties will maximize votes by converging to
an electoral center. There is no empirical support for this prediction. In order to account for …

Formal work on the electoral model often suggests that parties should locate at the electoral
mean. Recent research has found no evidence of such convergence. In order to explain non …