In a message dated 12/5/02 12:56:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Howdy,
I've never really studied the Median Voter Theorem.
Recently I read where someone claimed that the U.S.
political system was designed to keep the two parties
nearly identical by keeping other parties out. I
assumed that
--- john hull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... So then I thought, suppose a third party were
let into the race, does the MVT still hold w/ for 3 or
more candidates?
MVT posits a bell-shaped distribution of political views, and the parties
respond to that. Think of hot-dog vendors at a beach.
Fred Foldvary wrote:
MVT posits a bell-shaped distribution of political views.
No, it doesn't. A uniform distribution works just as well.
Comes a third vendor. If he is in the center, each now gets 1/3 the sales.
If one vendor moves just a bit away, he gets 1/2 while the others get 1/4.
Howdy,
I've never really studied the Median Voter Theorem.
Recently I read where someone claimed that the U.S.
political system was designed to keep the two parties
nearly identical by keeping other parties out. I
assumed that the reason they Dems Reps seem so close
may be because of the
