Arbeitspapier
Political Competition with Endogenous Party Formation and Citizen Activists
This paper studies the effects of endogenous party formation on political platforms. It develops a model in which parties allow like-minded citizens to, first, share the cost of running in a public election and, second, coordinate on a policy platform. The paper characterizes the set of political equilibria with two competing parties and with one uncontested party. In two-party equilibria, the distance between both platforms is always positive but limited, in contrast to the median voter model and the citizen candidate model. In one-party equilibria, the median voter can be worse off than in all equilibria with two competing parties.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 9374
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- Subject
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elections
party formation
platform choice
electoral uncertainty
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Hansen, Emanuel
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (where)
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Munich
- (when)
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2021
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Hansen, Emanuel
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Time of origin
- 2021
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