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Still Converging? a Downsian Party System Without Polls

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This article compares convergence of political parties when voters are voting strategically and when they are voting sincerely under low-information conditions. In order to examine this problem, I create a computational model of a party system, where parties are uncertain about the distribution of the electorate. In one condition of the model, voters vote sincerely; in another, voters vote strategically. It is found that when voters vote strategically parties are less likely to converge than when voters vote sincerely

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Journal of Theoretical Politics

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London : Sage Publications., 2008

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English

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0951-6298

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Vol. 20, No. 4, July 2008. Page 461-476

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Strategic voting
Median voter
Agent-based Modeling
Downs
Information
Still Converging

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