CENTRIST’S CURSE? AN ELECTORAL COMPETITION MODEL WITH CREDIBILITY CONSTRAINTS

Selim Ergun ()

The Singapore Economic Review (SER), 2015, vol. 60, issue 05, 1-18

Abstract: I analyze a model of electoral competition in which candidates’ need of credibility restricts their policy choice to a subset of the policy space, their ideology set. I focus on three party competition where candidates care about winning and their share of votes. I show that centrist parties are highly disadvantaged compared to leftist and rightist ones losing the election under a wide range of parameters. I also show that centrist parties’ winning opportunities increase under a run-off system.

Keywords: Electoral competition; plurality; run-off; credibility; spatial models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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