Stadler, B.M.R. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 287 (2000) 3, pp. 660-668
We consider a model of platform adaptation in spatial voting focussing on the effect of abstention on the stability of the mean voter equilibrium. Two distinct approaches for modeling abstention are explored: (1) voters abstain if party platforms are very much similar to each other and (2)...