Evolving Party Systems

• In Event: Formal Models of Party Systems and Electoral Systems

Brief Overview

We present a model to study political factions’ decisions to form parties, split from existing parties, or merge into new ones. We characterize conditions for which a party system is stable and under which instead cycles of fractionalization emerge.

Authors

• Giovanna Maria Invernizzi, Duke University

• Federica Izzo, University of California-San Diego