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Hansen, Emanuel ORCID: 0000-0003-3070-997X (2022). Political Competition with Endogenous Party Formation and Citizen Activists. Am. Econ. J.-Microecon., 14 (3). S. 35 - 76. NASHVILLE: AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC. ISSN 1945-7685

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Abstract

This paper studies the effects of endogenous party formation on politi-cal 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 equilib-ria, the median voter can be worse off than in all equilibria with two competing parties. (JEL D71, D72)

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Hansen, Emanuel UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-3070-997X UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-661060
DOI:	10.1257/mic.20200041
Journal or Publication Title:	Am. Econ. J.-Microecon.
Volume:	14
Number:	3
Page Range:	S. 35 - 76
Date:	2022
Publisher:	AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC
Place of Publication:	NASHVILLE
ISSN:	1945-7685
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language MODEL; PLATFORMS Multiple languages Economics Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/66106