Der bundesdeutsche Parteienwettbewerb hat sich in den letzten Jahren und damit seit der
Veröffentlichung der ersten Auflage dieses Buches im Herbst 2011 stark verändert. So führte …

Party competition for votes in free and fair elections involves complex interactions by
multiple actors in political landscapes that are continuously evolving, yet classical theoretical …

Party competition is largely about making policy promises to voters. We argue that the clarity
of the expressed policy position may be equally important. If blurred messages toward …

This paper provides a game-theoretic model of probabilistic voting and then examines the
incentives faced by candidates in a spatial model of elections. In our model, voters' …

The authors argue that the effects of economic globalization on social democratic parties in
Western Europe are conditional on the position of the median voter. If the median is far …

We examine the interaction between partisan affect and elite polarization in a behavioral
voting model. Voting is determined by affect rather than rational choice. Parties are office …

We propose a general model of repeated elections. In each period, a challenger is chosen
from the electorate to run against an incumbent politician in a majority-rule election, and the …

In recent decades psychologists have shown that the standard model of individual choice is
often violated. One regularly observed violation is that choices are influenced by the …

I consider a model in which candidates must win a primary election to compete in the
general election. Candidates may choose different policies in the primary and the general …

We give a game-theoretic foundation for the median voter theorem in a one-dimensional
bargaining model based on Baron and Ferejohn's [D. Baron, J. Ferejohn, Bargaining in …