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The Median Voter Theorem: Why Politicians Move to the Center

The Best Writing on Mathematics 2020, 2020
Introduction Mircea Pitici ix Outsmarting a Virus with Math Steven Strogatz 1 Uncertainty Peter J. Denning and Ted G. Lewis 8 The Inescapable Casino Bruce M.
Jørgen Veisdal
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Bargaining foundations of the median voter theorem [PDF]

Journal of Economic Theory, 2009
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Seok-Ju Cho, John Duggan
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NFL team revenue distribution and revenue sharing: a median voter theorem

Managerial Finance, 2020
PurposeRevenue sharing is ubiquitous among North American professional sports leagues. Under pool revenue sharing, above-average revenue teams of a league effectively transfer revenues to below-average revenue teams.
Justin Ehrlich, Shankar Ghimire
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Fuzzy Black’s Median Voter Theorem

Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, 2014
This chapter focuses on Black’s Median Voter theorem which states that the median voter’s ideal alternative will be the socially preferred to other alternatives under majority rule when the following strict conditions hold: 1) all alternatives can be strictly ordered; 2) each voter strictly prefers one alternative to all other alternatives; and 3) each
John Mordeson, Terry D Clark, Mark J Wierman   +2 more
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No Polarization in Spite of Primaries: A Median Voter Theorem with Competitive Nominations

Studies in Political Economy, 2015
It is commonly assumed that primaries induce candidates to adopt extremist positions. However the empirical evidence is mixed, so a theoretical investigation is warranted. This chapter develops a general model introducing the fundamental elements of primary elections in the well-known spatial voting model by Downs (An economic theory of democracy ...
Gilles Serra
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FUZZY BLACK'S MEDIAN VOTER THEOREM: EXAMINING THE STRUCTURE OF FUZZY RULES AND STRICT PREFERENCE [PDF]

New Mathematics and Natural Computation, 2012
Under certain aggregation rules, particular subsets of the voting population fully characterize the social preference relation, and the preferences of the remaining voters become irrelevant. In the traditional literature, these types of rules, i.e.
Michael B. Gibilisco, J. Mordeson, T. Clark   +2 more
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The median voter theorem and the repeal of the prohibition on abortion in Ireland: an analysis of the passage of the Thirty-Sixth Amendment

Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, 2020
In 2018, the Irish people voted in favour of the passage of the Thirty-Sixth Amendment. This vote abolished the Eighth Amendment, which had previously outlawed abortion by establishing the equal rights of the woman and the unborn child.
S. E. Guffey
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SINGLE PEAKED FUZZY PREFERENCES IN ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELS: DOES BLACK'S MEDIAN VOTER THEOREM HOLD?

New Mathematics and Natural Computation, 2010
Black's Median Voter Theorem is among the more useful mathematical tools available to political scientists for predicting choices of political actors based on their preferences over a finite set of alternatives within an institutional or constitutional setting.
J. Mordeson, L. Nielsen, T. Clark
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Single Peaked Fuzzy Preferences: Black's Median Voter Theorem

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B. Theorem
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Aggregation and Social Choice: A Mean Voter Theorem

Econometrica, 1991
Barry Nalebuff
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