Transcript
  • 00:01    |    
    Opening credits
  • 00:29    |    
    Introduction
  • 2:50    |    
    The median voter model
  • Assumptions for better understanding
  • 8:17    |    
    The election process
    • Diagram of median voter model
    • Moving platforms by the democrat candidate
    • Moving platforms by the republican candidate
    • Movement of platforms by democrats
    • Movement of platforms by republicans
    • Political competition
    • All candidates tend to look alike
    • Extreme candidates can't win elections
    • The equilibrium number of parties is two
    • Parliamentary systems can have many parties
    • Difference between the german and the american system
  • 38:02    |    
    Conclusion of the median voter model
    • Unique stable solution
    • Transaction costs are important in politics
    • High and low cost transactions
    • A legislature will tend to pick the outcome with the highest value to its members
  • 56:11    |    
    Conclusions
  • 58:47    |    
    Final credits


Democratic Elections

New Media  | 12 de marzo de 2003  | Vistas: 3966

References

  • Centro para el Análisis de las Decisiones Públicas, here

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Credits

Democratic Elections (Elecciones democráticas)
I Seminario Interuniversitario Economía para la Política
Randall Holcombe

Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
Guatemala, March 12, 2003

Produced by New Media - UFM. Guatemala, March 12th, 2003
Camera: Jose Cordón; digital editing: Sergio Miranda; index: Inés Zúñiga; XML: Fernando De León


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