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PARTY FORMATION IN SINGLE‐ISSUE POLITICS

Author(s) -

Osborne Martin J.,

Tourky Rabee

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

journal of the european economic association

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 7.792

H-Index - 93

eISSN - 1542-4774

pISSN - 1542-4766

DOI - 10.1162/jeea.2008.6.5.974

Subject(s) - affect (linguistics) , space (punctuation) , politics , economics , political science , law , sociology , computer science , communication , operating system

We study the implications of economies of party size in a model of party formation. We show that when the policy space is one‐dimensional, candidates form at most two parties. This result does not depend on the magnitude of the economies of party size or sensitively on the nature of the individuals' preferences. It does depend on our assumptions that the policy space is one‐dimensional and that uncertainty is absent; we study how modifications of these assumptions affect our conclusions. (JEL: D70, D72)

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