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Candidate Positioning and Entry in a Political Competition

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Martin J. Osborne

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I first show that if there are more than two potential candidates in the Hotelling- Downs model of the simultaneous choice of positions by politicians then an equilibrium fails to exist in a wide range of situations. Subsequently I study a temporal model in which candidates are free to act whenever they wish. For the case of three potential candidates I nd that in every equilibrium exactly one candidate enters. There is always an equilibrium in which the position cho- sen by the entrant is the median: the only other possibility is that the position chosen is far from the median.

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Paper provided by McMaster University in its series Department of Economics Working Papers with number 1992-02.

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C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Models of Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior

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