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Polarization, abstention, and the median voter theorem
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2022 The median voter theorem has long been the default model of voter behavior and candidate choice. While contemporary work on the distribution of political opinion has emphasized polarization and an increasing gap between the “left” and the “right” in ...
Matthew I. Jones +2 more
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New Perspectives on May’s Theorem and the Median Voter Theorem [PDF]
Financial Markets, Institutions and Risks, 2022 The paper defines and analyzes May’s Theorem and the Median Voter Theorem from the Public Policy and Public Choice literature and seeks to compare and contrast the use of both.
Richard Fast
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The value of being the decisive voter: Exploratory evidence from a hedonic model
Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 2023 In the field of public economics, there is a literature on calculating the probability of being a decisive voter. The raison d'etre of this literature is to explain voter turnout.
Ethan Peters, Joshua C. Hall
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The Greying of the Median Voter [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 Abstract: Analyzing 30 OECD-countries in 1980-2005, this paper documents the effect of an aging electorate on pension expenditure. The first outcome is that an increase in the age of the median voter leads to less generous pension benefits. The second outcome is that an older median voter is not significantly associated with an increase in pension ...
Hollanders, D.A., Koster, F.
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Redistribution, Taxes, and the Median Voter [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006 Abstract We study a simple model of production, accumulation, and redistribution, where agents are heterogeneous in their initial wealth, and a sequence of redistributive tax rates is voted upon. Though the policy is infinite-dimensional, we prove that a median voter theorem holds if households have identical, Gorman aggregable preferences ...
Marco Bassetto, Jess Benhabib
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The Politics of Tax Justice in Democracies: Redistribution Beyond the Median Voter Theorem
LSE Public Policy Review, 2022 Democratic states tend to raise large shares of national income through taxes, and spend the money in ways which redistribute resources from higher to lower income groups.
Jonathan Hopkin
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Strategy-Proofness and Median Voters [PDF]
International Journal of Game Theory, 1997 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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Spatial Segregation, Redistribution and Welfare: A Theoretical Model
Urban Planning, 2016 This paper develops a theoretical model focusing on the effect that different neighborhood compositions can have on the formation of individual beliefs about economic opportunities. Specifically we highlight two effects that spatial segregation may have:
Tommaso Gabrieli
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Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2012 The paper show possibilities of introducing modern methods into public economy and finance teaching. We present in-class experiment which illustrates one of typical model from political economy – the median voter theorem.
Domenico Raguseo +2 more
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How Small Interest Groups Can Win the Outcome of Elections and Polls: Lessons for Countries with Modern and Developing Democracies [PDF]
Westcliff International Journal of Applied Research, 2019 It might sound perfectly obvious that in a real democracy, the majority’s interests will always win against the interests of the minority. Unfortunately, in reality, this is not the case.
Nima S. Salami
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