[PDF] A Unified Theory Of Party Competition eBook

Author : James F. Adams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 13,40 MB
Release : 2005-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521544931

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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.

Author : James F. Adams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 15,20 MB
Release : 2005-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139444002

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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.

Author : Samuel Merrill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 23,51 MB
Release : 1999-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521665490

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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.

Author : John E ROEMER
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 13,21 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674042859

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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.

Author : Jonathan Bendor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 39,72 MB
Release : 2011-02-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 069113507X

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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.

Author : James Adams
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 28,44 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472087679

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DIVA marriage of behavioral and formal theory to explain the electoral strategies of political parties /div

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File Size : 50,75 MB
Release : 2010
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In countries with multiparty political systems, we assume--if the system is going to work--that parties have relatively stable positions on policy, that these positions diverge, and that voters make choices based on policy preferences. Yet much of the research on voter behavior and party competition does not support these assumptions. In Party Competition, James Adams applies the insights of behavioral research to an examination of the policy strategies that political parties (and candidates) employ in seeking election. He argues that vote-seeking parties are motivated to present policies that appeal to voters, whose bias toward these policies is based in part on reasons that have nothing to do with policy. He demonstrates that this strategic logic has profound implications for party competition and responsible party government. Adams's innovative fusion of research methodologies presents solutions to issues of policy stability and voter partisanship. His theory's supported by an in-depth analysis of empirical applications to party competition in Britain, France, and the United States in the postwar years. Party Competition and Responsible Party Government will appeal to readers interested in the study of political parties, voting behavior and elections, as well as to scholars specializing in French, British, and American politics. James Adams is Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Author : David Austen-Smith
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 26,9 MB
Release : 2000-12-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780472087211

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A definitive, comprehensive, and analytically sophisticated treatment of the theory of collective preference