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The Electoral Politics of Extreme Policies |
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| Authors: | Amihai Glazer Mark Gradstein & Kai A Konrad |
| Institution: | University of California, Irvine,;Ben-Gurion University,;Free University of Berlin |
| Abstract: | A government may adopt extreme policies (policies lying outside the interval between the ideal points of the political parties) for electoral purposes. It can benefit when a change in policy is costly, and when the opposing party cannot commit to maintaining the status quo. |
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