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Polarization, abstention, and the median voter theorem [PDF]

Humanities and 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 ...
Feng Fu, Antonio Sirianni, Matthew 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 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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Why the current Peak in Populism in the US and Europe? Populism as a Deviation in the Median Voter Theorem

European Journal of Government and Economics, 2018
The current surge of populism in Europe and the United States calls for further analysis using public choice tools. In this article, populism is modelled as a deviation from the normal state of the median voter theorem.
Filipa Figueira
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Inflation—unemployment choices in New Zealand and the median voter theorem [PDF]

Economics Letters, 1991
Using survey data we show that, at any unemployment rate, the New Zealand median voter is much less averse to inflation than his counterpart in the United States. This result is consistent with the median voter theorem.
David J Smyth
exaly   +3 more sources

A simple in-class experiment on the efficient production of the pure public good touching the median voter theorem

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, Jiří Špalek, Martin Klus   +2 more
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Optimizing voting order on sequential juries: a median voter theorem and beyond [PDF]

Social Choice and Welfare, 2020
We consider an odd-sized “jury”, which votes sequentially between two equiprobable states of Nature (say A and B, or Innocent and Guilty), with the majority opinion determining the verdict.
S. Alpern, Bo Chen
semanticscholar   +6 more sources

A Median Voter Theorem for Postelection Politics [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2003
We analyze a model of "postelection politics", in which (unlike in the more common Downsian models of "preelection politics") politicians cannot make binding commitments prior to elections. The game begins with an incumbent politician in office, and voters adopt reelection strategies that are contingent on the policies implemented by the incumbent.
Dhammika Dharmapala, E. Lehmann
semanticscholar   +4 more sources

The Evolution of the Median Voter Theorem: Historical Context, Contemporary Perspective, and Changing Applicability

Journal of Student Research
In 1948, democracies were still being established across the world, rendering the historical foundation of the Median Voter Theorem a pivotal point in the evolution of political thought.
Zeyu Zhao
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Income inequality, redistribution and the position of the decisive voter

Journal of Economic Inequality, 2016
A large literature explaining patterns of redistribution makes use of the median voter theorem. Using a novel approach, this contribution shows that in OECD countries the decisive voter, determined by the earner who sees her preferred tax rate being ...
Loek Groot, Daan Van Der Linde
exaly   +2 more sources