Congress in a Downsian World

by Lawrence C. Dodd

Book Overview

For over a half century, Anthony Downs's spatial model of ideologically structured party competition, articulated in An Economic Theory of Democracy, has been deeply embedded in the logic of American political science. An explicit assumption of this theory is that in a system of two-party competition, centrist politics would emerge as parties compete for the so-called median voter. But the highly polarized American politics in the early 21st century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415807549
• ISBN13: 9780415807548
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 128 Pages