Learning and Party Competition

✍ Scribed by Jie-Shin Lin

• Book ID: 102870480
• Publisher: Swiss Political Science Association
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: German
• Weight: 577 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1420-3529
• DOI: 10.1002/j.1662-6370.2008.tb00098.x

✦ Synopsis

Downs's (1957) analysis of political ideologies by means of a spatial analogy suggests that parties' efforts to attract votes lead them to adopt a median position. In this study, we consider a typology of two‐party competition based on two different learning environments, i.e. individual and social learning. Our results suggest that in the environment of population learning we have the median outcome, i.e. conventional, and in the one of individual learning we have the outcome of divergence.