Chitralekha Basu
@chitbazoo.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Empirical Democratic Theory, University of Cologne
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One such book is “Exorcising Hitler” by Frederick Taylor
November 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
One such book is “Exorcising Hitler” by Frederick Taylor
Reposted by Chitralekha Basu
there’s a whole literature on why the median voter theorem’s
core prediction (indistinguishably centrist parties, which Downs doesn’t actually expect!) doesn’t bear out, taking one assumption at a time and gaming out/showing what happens when it isn’t met www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
core prediction (indistinguishably centrist parties, which Downs doesn’t actually expect!) doesn’t bear out, taking one assumption at a time and gaming out/showing what happens when it isn’t met www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
DOWNS AND TWO-PARTY CONVERGENCE
▪ Abstract We take as our starting point the insights of Downs (1957) into two-party competition. A careful reading of Downs offers a much more sophisticated and nuanced portrait of the factors affect...
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November 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
there’s a whole literature on why the median voter theorem’s
core prediction (indistinguishably centrist parties, which Downs doesn’t actually expect!) doesn’t bear out, taking one assumption at a time and gaming out/showing what happens when it isn’t met www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
core prediction (indistinguishably centrist parties, which Downs doesn’t actually expect!) doesn’t bear out, taking one assumption at a time and gaming out/showing what happens when it isn’t met www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...