Optimal Party Strategies on Niche Issues: A Computational Approach to Multiparty Competition for Position and Salience

• In Event: Issue Salience and Party Strategies

Brief Overview

We analyze optimal behavior, where parties choose positions and salience levels, in light of two objectives: maximizing votes and minimizing the challenger's electoral success. We investigate competition on environmental and immigration policies.

Authors

• Anna Sophie Kurella, University of Mannheim, Mannheim Centre of European Social Research

• Lovisa Mundschenk, University of Zurich