Party competition: an agent-based model
Party competition for votes in free and fair elections involves complex interactions by multiple actors in political landscapes that are continuously evolving, yet classical theoretical approaches to the subject leave many important questions unanswered. Here Michael Laver and Ernest Sergenti offer the first comprehensive treatment of party competition using the computational techniques of agent-based modeling. This exciting new technology enables researchers to model competition between severa…
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- Full title :Party competition : an agent-based model / Michael Laver and Ernest Sergenti.
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Party competition for votes in free and fair elections involves complex interactions by multiple actors in political landscapes that are continuously evolving, yet classical theoretical approaches to the subject leave many important questions unanswered. Here Michael Laver and Ernest Sergenti offer the first comprehensive treatment of party competition using the computational techniques of agent-based modeling. This exciting new technology enables researchers to model competition between several different political parties for the support of voters with widely varying preferences on many different issues.
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- Publication Date:©2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication:Princeton, N.J
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xii, 278 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781400840328, 1400840325, 1283246201, 9781283246200
- oclc:ocn753694853
- LC Classification:JF2051
- Dewey Decimal:324.2
Table of Contents
pt. 1. Preliminaries -- pt. 2. The basic model -- pt. 3. Extensions and empirics.
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