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Valence Advantages and Public Goods Consumption: Does a Disadvantaged Candidate Choose an Extremist Position?
Soubeyran, Raphaël - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
Does a disadvantaged candidate always choose an extremist program? When does a less competent candidate have an incentive to move to extreme positions in order to differentiate himself from the more competent candidate? If the answer to these questions were positive, as suggested in recent work...
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Does a Disadvantaged Candidate Choose an Extremist Position?
Soubeyran, R. - Unité Mixte de Recherche Marchés, Organisations, … - 2008
Does a disadvantaged candidate always choose an extremist program? When does a less competent candidate have an incentive to move to extreme positions in order to differentiate himself from the more competent candidate? Recent works answer by the affirmative (Groseclose 1999, Ansolabehere and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004992662
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Political competition and Mirrleesian income taxation: A first pass
Bierbrauer, Felix J.; Boyer, Pierre C. - 2010
We study Downsian competition in a Mirrleesian model of income taxation. The competing politicians may differ in competence. If politicians engage in vote-share maximization, the less competent politician's policy proposals are attractive to the minority of rich agents, whereas those of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274813
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Extremism drives out moderation
Klose, Bettina; Kovenock J., Dan - 2012
alter the relative expenditures of centrists and radicals in equilibrium. Extremism, characterized by a higher per capita … success function, in determining the role of extremism and moderation in economic, political, and social environments …. -- conflict ; all-pay auction ; identity-dependent externalities ; radicalism ; extremism ; contest success function …
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Moderating Political Extremism : Single Round vs Runoff Elections Under Plurality Rule
Bordignon, Massimo - 2013
We compare single round vs runoff elections under plurality rule, allowing for partly endogenous party formation. Under runoff elections, the number of political candidates is larger, but the influence of extremist voters on equilibrium policy and hence policy volatility are smaller, because the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076816
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Habit Formation, Strategic Extremism and Debt Policy
Matsen, Egil; Thogersen, Oystein - 2021
We suggest a probabilistic voting model where voters' preferences for alternative public goods display habit formation. Current policies determine habit levels and in turn the future preferences of the voters. This allows the incumbent to act strategically in order to influence the probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316650
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Habit Formation, Strategic Extremism, and Debt Policy
Matsen, Egil; Thogersen, Oystein - 2010
We suggest a probabilistic voting model where voters’ preferences for alternative public goods display habit formation. Current policies determine habit levels and in turn the future preferences of the voters. This allows the incumbent to act strategically in order to influence the probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014197897
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Political competition and Mirrleesian income taxation: A first pass
Bierbrauer, Felix; Boyer, Pierre C. - 2010
We study Downsian competition in a Mirrleesian model of income taxation. The competing politicians may differ in competence. If politicians engage in vote-share maximization, the less competent politician's policy proposals are attractive to the minority of rich agents, whereas those of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286724
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Extremism Drives Out Moderation
Klose, Bettina S. - 2012
alter the relative expenditures of centrists and radicals in equilibrium. Extremism, characterized by a higher per capita … success function, in determining the role of extremism and moderation in economic, political, and social environments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106913
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Opinion Polarization in a Parliamentary Institution Generates Extreme Legislation
Gottesman, Avinat - 2021
How does opinion polarization over matters of moral conviction affect the legislative outcome of parliamentary institutions? Analysis reveals that in the relatively common case, in which a party's voting power is positively correlated with the public support of the convictions it represents, if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251897