Endogenous party platforms; "Stochastic" Membership

Andrei Gomberg, Francisco Marhuenda () and Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín ()
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Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín: Department of Economics, Universidad Carlos III

No 1307, Working Papers from Centro de Investigacion Economica, ITAM

Abstract: We analyze existence of divergent equilibria in a model of endogenous party platforms with stochastic membership, while the membership depends bothon the proposals of the parties and the unobserved idiosyncratic preferecnces of citizens over parties. It is shown that when citizens view the parties as similar, apart from their policy proposals (i.e., the party platform is a good predictor of individual membership decision). the divergent equilibria exist. We analyze the relationship between parties policy proposals and the unobserved idiosyncratic characteristics of parties and we obtain conclusions different from the ones prvovided in existing literature.

Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2013
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