Beyond the Median Voter Theorem: A New Framework for Ideological Positioning

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Tác giả: Shitong Wang

Ngôn ngữ: eng

Ký hiệu phân loại: 324.9171 Historical and geographic treatment of elections

Thông tin xuất bản: 2025

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Bộ sưu tập: Báo, Tạp chí

ID: 223660

Comment: 36pages, 16figuresThis paper revisits the limitations of the Median Voter Theorem and introduces a novel framework to analyze the optimal economic ideological positions of political parties. By incorporating Nash equilibrium, we examine the mechanisms and elasticity of ideal deviation costs, voter distribution, and policy feasibility. Our findings show that an increase in a party's ideal deviation cost shifts its optimal ideological position closer to its ideal point. Additionally, if a voter distribution can be expressed as a positive linear combination of two other distributions, its equilibrium point must lie within the interval defined by the equilibrium points of the latter two. We also find that decreasing feasibility costs incentivize governments, regardless of political orientation, to increase fiscal expenditures (e.g., welfare) and reduce fiscal revenues (e.g., taxes). This dynamic highlights the fiscal pressures commonly faced by democratic nations under globalization. Moreover, we demonstrate that even with uncertain voter distributions, parties can identify optimal ideological positions to maximize their utility. Lastly, we explain why the proposed framework cannot be applied to community ideologies due to their fundamentally different nature. This study provides new theoretical insights into political strategies and establishes a foundation for future empirical research.
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