Party formation in single-issue politics

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2008

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Osborne, Martin J
Tourky, Rabee

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MIT Press

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We study the implications of economies of party size in a model of party formation. We show that when the policy space is one-dimensional, candidates form at most two parties. This result does not depend on the magnitude of the economies of party size or

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Journal of the European Economic Association

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