Two-party competition with many constituencies

DOI10.1016/0165-4896(84)90004-0MaRDI QIDQ761930zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Austen-Smith

Publication date 1984

Published in Mathematical Social Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-4896(84)90004-0

zbMATH Keywords

election strategiespolicy choicespolitical systemsimple pluralitystrong party equilibrium

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social choice (91B14) Applications of game theory (91A80) Mathematical sociology (including anthropology) (91D99)

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