Governator vs. Hunter and Aggregator: A simulation of party competition with vote-seeking and office-seeking rules.

The policy positions parties choose are central to both attracting voters and forming coalition governments. How then should parties choose positions to best represent voters? Laver and Sergenti show that in an agent-based model with boundedly rational actors a decision rule (Aggregator) that takes...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Roni Lehrer, Gijs Schumacher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5796695?pdf=render