Spatial and Valence Candidate Competition: Experimental Evidence from More Than 50,000 Candidate Choices

• In Event: Models of Elections and Voter Turnout

Brief Overview

Leveraging a representative sample of the US electorate drawn from more than 50,000 candidate choices made in conjoint experiments, we test the assumptions and empirical predictions of a number of political competition formal models.

Authors

• Daniel Alexander Novick Goldstein, Yale University

• Milan Svolik, Yale University