Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Political Competition over a Single Issue: The Case of Certainty
2. Modeling Party Uncertainty
3. Unidimensional Policy Spaces with Uncertainty
4. Applications of the Wittman Model
5. Endogenous Parties: The Unidimensional Case
6. Political Competition over Several Issues: The Case of Certainty
7. Multidimensional Issue Spaces and Uncertainty: The Downs Model
8. Party Factions and Nash Equilibrium
9. The Democratic Political Economy of Progressive Taxation
10.Why the Poor Do Not Expropriate the Rich in Democracies
11. Distributive Class Politics and the Political Geography of Interwar Europe
12. A Three-Class Model of American Politics
13. Endogenous Parties with Multidimensional Competition
14. Toward a Model of Coalition Government
Mathematical Appendix
References
Index