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Ideology and existence of 50% majority equilibria in Multidimensional spatial voting Models

When aggregating individual preferences through the majority rule in an n-dimensional spatial voting model, the ‘worst-case’ scenario is a social choice configuration where no political equilibrium exists unless a super-majority rate as high as 1 — 1/(n+1) is adopted. In this paper we assume that a lower d-dimensional (d
Year of publication:
2010
Authors: Unver, Utku ; Crès, Hervé
Institutions: Department of Economics, Sciences économiques
Subject: ideology | mean voter theorem | spatial voting | super majority
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Type of publication: Book / Working Paper
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Published in Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2010
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010756443
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