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Indeterminacy of Citizen-Candidate Equilibrium

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John E. Roemer () (Dept. Political Science, Yale University)

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In a citizen candidate equilibrium, there are n candidates each of whom announces a policy in a policy space of dimension d. Thus the policy equilibrium lives in a space of dimension nd. We show, in a canonical example, that the equilibrium manifold is generically of dimension nd. In particular, the set of equilibria contains an open set in T^n .

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Paper provided by Cowles Foundation, Yale University in its series Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers with number 1410.

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Keywords: Citizen-candidate equilibrium; Political equilibrium;

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D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Models of Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior

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  1. Eguia, Jon X., 2005. "Citizen candidates under uncertainty," Working Papers 1233, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences. [Downloadable!]
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