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Title: |
Changing Dimensionality Of The Political Issue Space: Effects
On Political Party Competition |
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Authors: |
César García-Díaz, Gilmar Zambrana, Arjen van Witteloostuijn |
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(2012).ECMS
2012 Proceedings edited by: K. G. Troitzsch, M. Moehring, U. Lotzmann. European
Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2012 ISBN:
978-0-9564944-4-3 26th
European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Shaping reality through simulation Koblenz,
Germany, May 29 – June 1 2012 |
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Citation
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Garcia-Diaz, C., Zambrana, G., & van Witteloostujin,
A. (2012). Changing Dimensionality Of The Political Issue Space: Effects On
Political Party Competition. ECMS 2012 Proceedings edited by: K. G. Troitzsch, M. Moehring, U. Lotzmann (pp. 690-696).
European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2012-0690-0696 |
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DOI: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2012-0690-0696 |
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Abstract: |
We built an agent-based model of
political party competition in order to explore the effect of the decrease in
the number of relevant political issues on the number of political parties
and the corresponding voter shares. We find that, when the space experiences
a political shock and suddenly reduces in the number of dimensions,
the number of political parties declines. We also observe that, after the
shock, (i) the inert parties tend to improve their
performance and that (ii) a few of the adaptive large size-seekers cushion
their increased mortality hazard by locating in the zone with most intense
competition (close to the political space center), which generates strong
party size effects. |
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