Nonspatial Candidate Characteristics and Electoral Competition

The Journal of Politics

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1982, Pages 115-130

  Enelow, James M ^a   Hinich, Melvin J ^a  

^a NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

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EID: 84976048316     PISSN: 00223816     EISSN: 14682508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2130286     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. case of multiple policy dimensions. For details, see Melvin J. Hinich, “The Mean Versus the Median in Spatial Voting Games,” in P.C. Ordeshook, ed., Game Theory and Political Science (New York: New York University Press, 1978.)
2. Donald E. Stokes, “Spatial Models of Party Competition,” American Political Science Review, 57 (1963), 368–377.
3. Peter H. Aranson, Melvin J. Hinich, and Peter C. Ordeshook, “Election Goals and Strategies: Equivalent and Nonequivalent Candidate Objectives,” American Political Science Review, 68 (1974), 135–152.
4. Duncan Luce and Howard Raiffa, Games and Decisions (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1957).
5. This result is spelled out most clearly in Duncan Black, The Theory of Committees and Elections (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1958), chapter IV.
6. See William L. Hays and Robert L. Winkler, Statistics: Probability, Inference. and Decision, Volume I (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1970), 220–222.
7. The Federalist Papers, Mentor edition (New York: The New American Library, 1961), 77–84.
8. Robert Dahl, A Preface to Democratic Theory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956), chapter 1.