Extremism, campaigning and ambiguity

DOI10.1016/J.GEB.2003.05.001MaRDI QIDQ1885441zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andreas Westermark

Publication date 28 October 2004

Published in Games and Economic Behavior (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://hdl.handle.net/10419/82865

zbMATH Keywords

Political partiesCampaigning

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History, political science (91F10) Voting theory (91B12)

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• Equilibrium Selection in Signaling Games
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• Signaling Games and Stable Equilibria
• The impact of reelection pressures on the fulfillment of campaign promises

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