A Unified Theory Of Voting
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A Unified Theory Of Voting
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Author : Samuel Merrill
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1999-09-13
A Unified Theory Of Voting written by Samuel Merrill and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-09-13 with Political Science categories.
Professors Merrill and Grofman develop a unified model that incorporates voter motivations and assesses its empirical predictions--for both voter choice and candidate strategy--in the United States, Norway, and France. The analyses show that a combination of proximity, direction, discounting, and party ID are compatible with the mildly but not extremely divergent policies that are characteristic of many two-party and multiparty electorates. All of these motivations are necessary to understand the linkage between candidate issue positions and voter preferences.
A Unified Theory Of Party Competition
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Author : James F. Adams
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-03-21
A Unified Theory Of Party Competition written by James F. Adams and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-21 with Political Science categories.
This book integrates spatial and behavioral perspectives - in a word, those of the Rochester and Michigan schools - into a unified theory of voter choice and party strategy. The theory encompasses both policy and non-policy factors, effects of turnout, voter discounting of party promises, expectations of coalition governments, and party motivations based on policy as well as office. Optimal (Nash equilibrium) strategies are determined for alternative models for presidential elections in the US and France, and for parliamentary elections in Britain and Norway. These polities cover a wide range of electoral rules, number of major parties, and governmental structures. The analyses suggest that the more competitive parties generally take policy positions that come close to maximizing their electoral support, and that these vote-maximizing positions correlate strongly with the mean policy positions of their supporters.
A Unified Theory Of Voting
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Author : Samuel Merrill, III
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1999-09-13
A Unified Theory Of Voting written by Samuel Merrill, III and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-09-13 with Political Science categories.
Professors Merrill and Grofman develop a unified model that incorporates voter motivations and assesses its empirical predictions--for both voter choice and candidate strategy--in the United States, Norway, and France. The analyses show that a combination of proximity, direction, discounting, and party ID are compatible with the mildly but not extremely divergent policies that are characteristic of many two-party and multiparty electorates. All of these motivations are necessary to understand the linkage between candidate issue positions and voter preferences.
Incremental Polarization
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Author : Justin Buchler
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-04-27
Incremental Polarization written by Justin Buchler and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-27 with Political Science categories.
As the last decade has shown, ideological polarization in Congress has reached historic levels. Yet, spatial theory has become increasingly important for how scholars understand Congress and legislative elections. In spatial models, candidates select positions along an ideological spectrum, and voters choose candidates based on those locations. However, the central tendency of these models is for the candidates to converge to the location of the median voter, so polarization has become increasingly problematic for spatial theory, even as scholars have come to rely increasingly on these models. In Incremental Polarization, Justin Buchler provides a unified spatial model of legislative elections, parties, and roll call voting to explain the development of polarization in Congress. His model moves beyond elections and factors in legislators' roll call voting, where a different but related spatial process operates. By linking these models, Incremental Polarization fills a critical gap in our understanding of the strategic, electoral, and procedural roots of polarization-and the role that parties play in the process.
Voting For Policy Not Parties
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Author : Orit Kedar
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-12-14
Voting For Policy Not Parties written by Orit Kedar and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-14 with Political Science categories.
This book develops an institutionally embedded framework for analyzing voter choice, examining three electoral arenas: parliamentary, presidential, and federal.
Making Votes Count
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Author : Gary W. Cox
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1997-03-28
Making Votes Count written by Gary W. Cox and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-03-28 with Political Science categories.
Popular elections are at the heart of representative democracy. Thus, understanding the laws and practices that govern such elections is essential to understanding modern democracy. In this book, Cox views electoral laws as posing a variety of coordination problems that political forces must solve. Coordination problems - and with them the necessity of negotiating withdrawals, strategic voting, and other species of strategic coordination - arise in all electoral systems. This book employs a unified game-theoretic model to study strategic coordination worldwide and that relies primarily on constituency-level rather than national aggregate data in testing theoretical propositions about the effects of electoral laws. This book also considers not just what happens when political forces succeed in solving the coordination problems inherent in the electoral system they face but also what happens when they fail.
The Uk General Election Of 2010
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Author : Justin Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-18
The Uk General Election Of 2010 written by Justin Fisher and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-18 with Political Science categories.
The 2010 general election was the most eagerly awaited contest in Britain since 1997. With opinion polls showing a closing gap between the parties, the result was uncertain right up to polling day. In the end, the election was particularly noteworthy for three reasons. First of all, there were televised debates between leaders of the three largest parties. This idea has long been called for, but for a variety of reasons they had not occurred in Britain until 2010. Now they are here, they are almost certainly here to stay. Secondly, the election led to the end of thirteen years of Labour rule. Just as the 1964 and the 1997 elections had delivered the final blows to long-standing one party government, so 2010 did the same. What made 2010 particularly significant however was that, unlike 1964 or 1997, no single party assumed the reins of power. Thirdly, although the Conservatives ended up as the largest party by some margin, they were still some twenty seats short of a majority of just one. Not since the election of February 1974 had the result failed to produce a majority government in the Commons, and before that, we would have to go back to 1929 to find a similar outcome. This book features high quality and data-rich examinations of the election. It is intended for audiences who want to go beyond a simple description of the election towards an enhanced understanding of why the election turned out the way it did. This book was published as a special edition of Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties.
A Unified Theory Of Collective Action And Social Change
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Author : Luis Fernando Medina Sierra
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2007-05-31
A Unified Theory Of Collective Action And Social Change written by Luis Fernando Medina Sierra and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-31 with Business & Economics categories.
An intriguing examination of one of the most important unresolved problems in social choice theory: how do we best understand people's decision to pay the cost of a public good?
A Unified Theory Of Collective Action And Social Change
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Author : Luis Medina
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2009-12-18
A Unified Theory Of Collective Action And Social Change written by Luis Medina and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-18 with Business & Economics categories.
The notion that groups form and act in ways that respond to objective, external costs and benefits has long been the key to accounting for social change processes driven by collective action. Yet this same notion seems to fall apart when we try to explain how collectivities emerge out of the choices of individuals. This book overcomes that dilemma by offering an analysis of collective action that, while rooted in individual decision making, also brings out the way in which objective costs and benefits can impede or foster social coordination. The resulting approach enables us to address the causes and consequences of collective action with the help of the tools of modern economic theory. To illustrate this, the book applies the tools it develops to the study of specific collective action problems such as clientelism, focusing on its connections with economic development and political redistribution; and wage bargaining, showing its economic determinants and its relevance for the political economy of the welfare state. "Medina's study is a great step forward in the analytics of collective action. He shows the inadequacies of currently standard models and shows that straightforward revisions reconcile rational-choice and structural viewpoints. It will influence all future work." -Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University "Olson, Schelling, and now Medina. A Unified Theory deepens our understanding of collective action and contributes to the foundations of our field. A major work." -Robert H. Bates, Harvard University "Medina thinks that the main problem of social action is not whether or not to cooperate but how to do it. To this end he has produced an imaginative approach to analyzing strategic coordination problems that produces plausible predictions in a range of circumstances." -John Ferejohn, Stanford University Luis Fernando Medina is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia.
Algorithmic Game Theory
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Author : Tobias Harks
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-09-08
Algorithmic Game Theory written by Tobias Harks and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-08 with Computers categories.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory, SAGT 2020, held in Augsburg, Germany, in September 2020.* The 21 full papers presented together with 3 abstract papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: auctions and mechanism design, congestion games and flows over time, markets and matchings, scheduling and games on graphs, and social choice and cooperative games. * The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.