Elections in a Multi-Party Political System - Theoretical Economics Letters

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Elections in a Multi-Party Political System ()

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DOI: 10.4236/tel.2011.12005 4,788 Downloads 10,162 Views Citations

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Yeolyong Sung

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ABSTRACT

In a multi-party political system, candidates’ policy points disperse in general even with two candidates when parties have different feasible policy sets. Also, it is shown that extremists can influence the political outcomes with a relatively small feasible policy set.

KEYWORDS

Election, Multi-Party, Median Voter Result, Extremist

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Y. Sung, "Elections in a Multi-Party Political System," Theoretical Economics Letters, Vol. 1 No. 2, 2011, pp. 18-20. doi: 10.4236/tel.2011.12005.

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