Populist United: A Theory of Intra-party Bargaining under Policy Constraints

• In Event: Coalitions and Intra-Party Factions

Brief Overview

We develop a model of intraparty bargaining between an opportunist and a militant faction in a 2-dimension policy space where populism arises endogenously as the equilibrium outcome of bargaining between rational actors to keep the party together.

Authors

• Nikitas Konstantinidis, IE University

• Konstantinos Matakos, King's College London