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Strategic electoral rule choice under uncertainty
(2015)
We study electoral rule choice in a multi-party model with office-motivated parties and electoral outcome uncertainty. We show that when all dominant parties (parties with positive probability of winning the election) have ...
Turnout and Polarization Under Alternative Electoral Systems
(2015)
This chapter presents a formal model of electoral competition where parties’ platforms are endogenously chosen and depend on the degree of the electoral rule disproportionality. We first show that proportional electoral ...
Divide and rule: redistribution in a model with differentiated candidates
(2017)
We study an electoral competition model in which each voter is characterized by income level and non-economic characteristics, and where two vote share maximizing candidates, with fixed non-economic characteristics ...
Strategic vote trading in power sharing systems
(2017)
This paper studies decentralized vote trading in a power sharing system that follows the rules of strategic market games. In particular, we study a two-party election in which prior to the voting stage, voters are free to ...
An economic model of strategic electoral rule choice under uncertainty
(2011)
We study electoral rule choice in a multi-party model where parties are o¢ ce-motivated and uncertainty over the electoral outcome is present. We show that when all dominant parties (parties with positive probability of ...