Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/38951 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3014
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Interest groups are introduced in a spatial model of electoral competition between two political parties. We show that, by coordinating voting behavior, these interest groups increase the winning set, which is defined as the set of policy platforms for the challenger that will defeat the incumbent. Therefore interest groups enhance the probability of the challenger winning the election.
Subjects: 
spatial voting models
electoral competition
winning set
interest groups
JEL: 
D71
D72
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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