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| Author: | Anesi, V. Donder, P. De |
| Title: | Party formation and minority ideological positions |
| Journal: | Economic Journal
2009 : OCT, VOL. 119:540 p. 1303-1323 |
| Index terms: | elections incomes competition politics models |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper proposes a model where voters differ in their exogenous income and in their ideological views, with racism as an illustration. Electoral competition takes place between an endogenous number of parties that propose platforms consisting of both an ideological and an economic dimension. The purpose is to explain the emergence of minority ideological positions and to understand the role played by political parties in this emergence. It is first illustrated that, in a pure citizen-candidate model where parties are absent, the only equilibrium consists of the majority ideological position. It is then shown that allowance for the formation of political parties generates equilibria with minority ideological positions. |
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