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The Median Voter According to GARP
Southern Economic Journal, 1998This paper adapts the generalized axiom of revealed preference (GARP) empirical method to the public goods problem to test whether observed municipal public spending can be explained “as if” the city governments maximize the utility of the median income voter.
Geoffrey K. Turnbull, Chinkun Chang
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A Median Voter Model of Social Security
International Economic Review, 1989This paper presents a theoretical median voter analysis of the determination of the level of social security. The framework for the analysis is a continuous-time overlapping-generations model with non- altruistic households facing borrowing constraints in the capital market.
Boadway, Robin W, Wildasin, David E
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Southern Economic Journal, 1995
Under the median voter model the demand for local government spending is a function of the median voter income and median tax price of spending in the jurisdiction. The theory provides a convenient framework for analytically aggregating the individuals' public spending demands into a community public demand function.' It does not, however, provide ...
Geoffrey K. Turnbull, Peter M. Mitias
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Under the median voter model the demand for local government spending is a function of the median voter income and median tax price of spending in the jurisdiction. The theory provides a convenient framework for analytically aggregating the individuals' public spending demands into a community public demand function.' It does not, however, provide ...
Geoffrey K. Turnbull, Peter M. Mitias
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Generalized Median Voter Schemes and Committees
Journal of Economic Theory, 1993zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Barberà, Salvador +2 more
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The Monopsony Power of the Median Voter
Public Finance Review, 2003This article attempts to establish a link between voting theory and price theory. The median voter is characterized as a monopsonist who sets a price for the winning vote in an election. As such, the median voter can extract rents from the political sector as a function of the price of substitute winning voters, which in turn will depend on the ...
Brian L. Goff, Robert D. Tollison
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Inflation, unemployment and the median voter
Economics Letters, 1986Abstract We combine an econometric analysis of survey data on the relative seriousness of inflation and unemployment with the median voter theorem to derive the equilibrium rate of inflation. If the natural rate of unemployment is 7 percent, then the equilibrium inflation rate is 5.4 percent.
David J. Smyth, Pami Dua
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2008
Most analytical work in public choice is based upon relatively simple models of majority decision making. These models are widely used even though the researchers know that real political settings are more complex than the models seem to imply. The use of such simple models can be defended for a variety of reasons: First, simple models allow knowledge ...
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Most analytical work in public choice is based upon relatively simple models of majority decision making. These models are widely used even though the researchers know that real political settings are more complex than the models seem to imply. The use of such simple models can be defended for a variety of reasons: First, simple models allow knowledge ...
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7 Representing the Median Voter
2005AbstractThis chapter performs a static analysis of correspondences between median voter, Parliamentary median, and government preferences by individual government and election. Distortions are widespread but more evident under SMD than PR systems — which are of course designed to produce a ‘necessary’ correspondence between the median voter and the ...
Michael D. McDonald, Ian Budge
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A note on the median voter theory and voter alienation
The Social Science Journal, 2009Abstract This note explores the consequences of movement of candidates toward the center of the political distribution. Uniform and normal distributions are considered. Movement toward the center of the political distribution can increase or decrease the number of votes received by a candidate.
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An Examination of the Median Voter Hypothesis
Western Political Quarterly, 1985VO VER 100 YEARS ago Scottish historian Alexander Tytler wrote that in a democracy, "the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury .. ." (Tytler 1840). His conclusion still captures the interest of many scholars. For instance, in recent years the general theme of Tytler's statement has been advanced as
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