Candidate Strategies in Two-stage Elections Beginning with a Primary: Uncertainty over Public Opinion Can Drive Elite Polarization

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Brief Overview

Our paper highlights how candidate uncertainty about voter preferences in two-stage elections can support a stable configuration of office-seeking candidate strategies, in which the candidates fully polarize to their primary electorates' position.

Authors

• Sharif Amlani, University of California, Davis

• James Adams, University of California-Davis