DIMENSIONAL SIMPLIFICATION AND ECONOMIC THEORIES OF LEGISLATIVE BEHAVIOR |
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Authors: | Keith T Poole Howard Rosenthal |
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Institution: | Carnegie-Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA;Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA |
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Abstract: | In many many places, the political parties and political contests seem to array themselves along a single dimension. If you look at their programs in detail it always turns out that it's much more complicated than that. But it would appear that in the minds of the voters they are literally frequently arrayed on a single continuum which, as a result of the organization of the French chamber of deputies, is usually referred to as a left/right. |
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