Contests, Factions, and the Internal Organization of Political Parties

• In Event: Intra-Party Dynamics and Political Selection

Brief Overview

We study the internal organization of political parties in a moral hazard setting. We find that party structure encourages more intense factional competition under consensual systems (e.g., PR) than under winner-take-all systems (e.g, majoritarian).

Authors

• Giovanna Maria Invernizzi, Columbia University in the City of New York

• Carlo Prato, Columbia University in the City of New York