Party platforms in electoral competition with heterogeneous constituencies

Theoretical Economics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 41-70

  Eyster, Erik ^a   Kittsteiner, Thomas M ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hotelling competition; Median voter; Political parties

Indexed keywords

EID: 44949167769     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15557561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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