Work

Nomination Processes and Policy Outcomes

Year: 2007

Type: article

Abstract: We provide a set of new models of three different processes by which political parties nominate candidates for a general election: nominations by party leaders, nominations by a vote of party members, and nominations by a spending competition among potential candidates. We show that more extreme outcomes can emerge from spending competition than from nominations by votes or by party leaders, and that non-median outcomes can result via any of these processes. When voters (and potential nominees) are free to switch political parties, then median outcomes ensue when nominations are decided by a vote but not when nominations are decided by spending competition.

Source: Quarterly Journal of Political Science

DOI: 10.1561/100.00006043

Authors: Matthew O. Jackson, Laurent Mathevet, Kyle Mattes

Institutions: Stanford University, California Institute of Technology

Language: English

Topic: Electoral Systems and Political Participation

Subfield: Political Science and International Relations

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: green

Funder: Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University