Extreme voting under proportional representation: the Multidimensional case

• Autores: Francesco De Sinopoli, Giovanna Iannantuoni
• Localización: Documentos de trabajo. Economic series ( Universidad Carlos III. Departamento de Economía ), Nº. 34, 2005
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • We study the strategic behavior of voters in a model of proportional representation, in which the policy space is multidimensional. Our main finding is that in large electorate, under some assumptions on voters' preferences, voters essentially vote, in any equilibrium, only for the extreme parties.