James F. Adams

Unified Theory of Party Competition (eBook, PDF)

A Cross-National Analysis Integrating Spatial and Behavioral Factors

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511113901
• Artikelnr.: 38189536

Autorenporträt

James Adams is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His primary research interest is the application of spatial modeling to real world elections, and the insights this approach can provide into theories of political representation. He is the author of Party Competition and Responsible Party Government: A Theory of Spatial Competition Based upon Insights from Behavioral Voting Research (2001), as well as articles in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, and Public Choice.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Modeling party competition; 2. How voters decide: the components of the
unified theory of voting; 3. Linking voter choice to party strategies:
illustrating the role of non-policy factors; 4. Factors influencing the
link between party strategy and the variables; 5. Policy competition under
the unified theory: empirical applications to the 1988 French Presidential
Election; 6. Policy competition under the unified voting model: empirical
applications to the 1989 Norwegian parliamentary election; 7. The threat of
abstention: candidate strategies and policy representation in US
presidential elections; 8. Candidate strategies with voter abstention in US
presidential elections: 1980, 1984, 1988, 1996, and 2000; 9. Policy
competition in Britain: the 1997 general election; 10. The consequences of
voter projection: assimilation and contrast effects; 11. Policy-seeking
motivations of parties in two-party elections: theory; 12. Policy-seeking
motivations of parties in two-party elections: empirical analysis; 13.
Concluding remarks.