Policy and the Dynamics of Political Competition

By Michael Laver. American Political Science Review, 2005

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Citations in the corpus

• Random Walk or Planned Excursion? Continuity and Change in the Left–Right Positions of Political Parties (2015, result): “In contrast to rationalist vote-seeking theories, another approach emphasizes the parties’ concerns about public policies and their ideological identity (Laver, 2005).”
• Research Note: On the inverse relationship between votes and proximity for niche parties (2008, background): “14. It is also worth noting that the niche parties result is relevant to the studies on party decision rules (Budge 1994; Laver 2005 ).”
• Growth and Persistence of the Radical Right in Postindustrial Democracies: Advances and Challenges in Comparative Research (2007, background): “Also a more sophisticated behavioural model of parties’ strategic calculations along the lines suggested by Laver (2005) may be useful: for example, do party strategists observe ‘predatory’ strategies by always moving closer to the position of the most successful vote-getter?”