Party Competition and Responsible Party Government : A Theory of Spatial Competition Based upon Insights from Behavioral Voting Research.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- I. Party Competition under the Basic Partisan Spatial Model -- 1. Political Representation and Responsible Party Government -- 2. Policy Stability, Policy Divergence, and the Pressure for Responsible Parties in a Three-Party System: The Case of Britain -- 3. Party Policy Trajectories in the Absence of Long-Term Equilibrium: Temporal Aspects of Party Competition in Three-Party Elections -- 4. Party Competition in Postwar France under the Partisan Vote Model -- II. Extensions of the Basic Partisan Vote Model -- 5. Party Competition in Postwar France, Part II: Party Policies since the Mid-1980s -- 6. Extensions to Probabilistic Voting -- 7. Extensions to Two-Party Competition in American Elections: A Sketch of a Partisan Spatial Model with Variable Voter Turnout -- 8. Directions for Future Research -- Appendixes -- Appendix A. Description of the Simulation Procedures -- Appendix B. On Using Election Surveys to Analyze Parties' Cross-Time Policy Trajectories -- Appendix C. Party Policy Strategies and Equilibrium Results for a Generalized Multivariate Probabilistic Voting Model -- Appendix D. Proof of Theorem 7.1 -- Notes -- References -- Index.

A marriage of behavioral and formal theory to explain the electoral strategies of political parties.

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