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Preface
Introduction
1. Political Competition over a Single Issue: The Case of Certainty
1.1 Citizens, Voters, and Parties
1.2 The Downs Model
1.3 The Wittman Model
1.4 Conclusion
2. Modeling Party Uncertainty
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The State-Space Approach to Uncertainty
2.3 An Error-Distribution Model of Uncertainty
2.4 A Finite-Type Model
2.5 Conclusion
3. Unidimensional Policy Spaces with Uncertainty
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The Downs Model
3.3 The Wittman Model: An Example
3.4 Existence of Wittman Equilibrium
3.5 Properties of Wittman Equilibrium
3.6 Summary
4. Applications of the Wittman Model
4.1 Simple Models of Redistribution: The Politics of Extremism
4.2 Politico-Economic Equilibrium with Labor-Supply Elasticity
4.3 Partisan Dogmatism and Political Extremism
4.4 A Dynamic Model of Political Cycles
4.5 Conclusion
5. Endogenous Parties: The Unidimensional Case
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Average-Member Nash Equilibrium
5.3 Condorcet-Nash Equilibrium
5.4 Conclusion
6. Political Competition over Several Issues: The Case of Certainty
6.1 Introduction
6.2 The Downs Model
6.3 The Wittman Model
6.4 Conclusion
7. Multidimensional Issue Spaces and Uncertainty: The Downs Model
7.1 Introduction
7.2 The State-Space and Error-Distribution Models of Uncertainty
7.3 The Coughlin Model
7.4 The Lindbeck-Weibull Model
7.5 Adapting the Coughlin Model to the Case of Aggregate Uncertainty
7.6 Conclusion
8. Party Factions and Nash Equilibrium
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Party Factions
8.3 PUNE as a Bargaining Equilibrium
8.4 A Differential Characterization of PUNE
8.5 Regular Wittman Equilibrium
8.6 PUNEs in the Unidimensional Model
8.7 PUNEs in a Multidimensional Euclidean Model
8.8 Conclusion
9. The Democratic Political Economy of Progressive Taxation
9.1 Introduction
9.2 The Model
9.3 The Equilibrium Concepts
9.4 Analysis of Party Competition
9.5 Calibration
9.6 Conclusion
10. Why the Poor Do Not Expropriate the Rich in Democracies
10.1 The Historical Issue and a Model Preview
10.2 The Politico-Economic Environment
10.3 Analysis of PUNEs
10.4 Empirical Tests
10.5 Proofs of Theorems
10.6 Concluding Remark
11. Distributive Class Politics and the Political Geography of Interwar Europe
11.1 Introduction
11.2 The Luebbert Model
11.3 Testing Luebbert's Theory
11.4 Introducing the Communists: A Three-Party Model
11.5 Conclusion
11.6 Methodological Coda
Appendix 11A
12. A Three-Class Model of American Politics
12.1 Introduction
12.2 The Model
12.3 Characterization of PUNEs
12.4 Results
12.5 Conclusion
13. Endogenous Parties with Multidimensional Competition
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Endogenous Parties
13.3 Taxation and Race
13.4 Fitting the Model to U.S. Data
13.5 Quadratic Taxation
13.6 Private Financing of Parties
13.7 A Technical Remark on the Existence of PUNEs
13.8 Conclusion
13.9 Why the Poor Do Not Expropriate the Rich: Reprise
14. Toward a Model of Coalition Government
14.1 Introduction
14.2 The Payoff Function of a Wittman Party
14.3 An Example of Coalition Government: Unidimensional Wittman Equilibrium
14.4 Multidimensional Three-Party Politics
14.5 Coalition Government with a Multidimensional Issue Space: An Example
14.6 Conclusion
Mathematical Appendix
A.1 Basics of Probability Theory
A.2 Some Concepts from Analysis
References
Index
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