The Investment Theory of Party Competition
In 1957, Anthony Downs published “An Economic Theory of Political Action in a Democracy” in the Journal of Political Economy. In that paper he laid out what came to be called the Downsian model of political competition. According to this model, political entrepreneurs seeking office position themselves in the spectrum of policy in order to appeal to a s…
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