Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/61010 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3900
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We examine the two-candidate equilibria of the citizen-candidate model when the implemented policy arises from a compromise between the government and an unelected external power. We show that the equilibria of this model differ significantly from the original: the distance between the candidates' policies, both ideal and implemented, remains strictly above a threshold. Thus, the median voters' ideal policy may not obtain in contested elections if policy control is imperfect, even when the cost of running as a candidate is arbitrarily small.
Subjects: 
elections
polarization
strategic delegation
bureaucracy
foreign influence
JEL: 
D72
D78
H11
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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