Modeling Party Competition in General Elections

John Roemer

No 1488, Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers from Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University

Abstract: We survey critically the brief history of modeling party competition in general elections, beginning with the Hotelling-Downs model with a unidimensional policy space, and the Wittman model with endogenous parties, to the multi-dimensional citizen-candidate and PUNE models. Some applications of the newer models are discussed.

Keywords: Downs; Hotelling; Wittman; PUNE; Citizen-candidate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2004-10
Note: CFP 1192.
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Published in B. Weingast and D. Wittman, eds., Oxford Handbook of Political Economy, 2006, pp. 1010-1030

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