The strategy of parties regarding which issues to emphasize during electoral campaigns is an important aspect of electoral competition. In this paper, we advance research on electoral competition by developing a multidimensional model of electoral competition in which parties compete for...

Authoritarian regimes maintain their grip on power primarily through preventive repression routinely exercised by specialized security agencies, with the aim of preventing any opposition from organizing and becoming public. We develop a formal model to analyze the moral hazard problems inherent...

In most parliamentary democracies, proportional representation electoral rules mean that no single party controls a majority of seats in the legislature. This in turn means that the formation of majority legislative coalitions in such settings is of critical political importance. Conventional...