Arbeitspapier

Electoral competition with uncertainty averse parties

The nonexistence of equilibria in models of electoral competition involving multiple issues is one of the more puzzling results in political economics. In this paper, we relax the standard assumption that parties act as expected utility maximizers. We show that equilibria often exist when parties with limited knowledge about the electorate are modeled as uncertainty-averse. What is more, these equilibria can be characterized as a straightforward generalization of the classical median voter result.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods ; No. 2010,22

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
Thema
Uncertainty Aversion
Multiple Priors
Median Voter
Electoral Competition over many Issues
Wahlkampf
Politische Partei
Risikoaversion
Median Voter
Gleichgewicht
Theorie

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Bade, Sophie
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2010

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Bade, Sophie
  • Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

Entstanden

  • 2010

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