Extreme idealism and equilibrium in the Hotelling-Downs model of political competition

In the classic Hotelling-Downs model of political competition, no pure strategy equilibrium with three or more strategic candidates exists when the distribution of voters’ preferred policies is unimodal. I study the effect of introducing two idealist candidates to the model who are non-strategic (i....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ronayne, D
Format: Journal article
Published: Springer Verlag 2018