dc.contributor | Facultad de Ciencias Economicas y Empresariales | es_ES |
dc.contributor.author | Amorós González, Pablo | |
dc.contributor.author | Martínez Rico, Ricardo | |
dc.contributor.author | Puy, Socorro | |
dc.contributor.other | Economia Aplicada | es_ES |
dc.date | 2014 | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-06-03T13:35:28Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-06-03T13:35:28Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-06-03 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10612/5226 | |
dc.description.abstract | The top-two primary recently approved in several states in the U.S. eliminates the closed party primaries and creates instead a single ballot in which the Örst and second place winners pass to the general election. We conduct a theoretical analysis to compare the electoral consequences of the top-two primary with those of the closed primaries. Each primary procedure induces a sequential game with three stages: candidate-entry stage, primary election, and general election. We analyze the equilibria of these games and show that the top-two primary contributes to political moderation. In particular, when the median voter is an extremist, the closed primaries always generate an extreme winner and yet the top-two primary can generate an equilibrium with a moderate winner. Further- more, when the median voter is a moderate but his/her partyís median partisan is an extremist (and some additional mild conditions hold), the closed primaries always generate an extreme winner while the top-two primary always generates a moderate winner. We also show that the top-two primary may increase the number of swing states since, in certain cases, the party-affiliation of the winner under the top-two primary may not coincide with the party affiliation of the median voter | es_ES |
dc.language | eng | es_ES |
dc.subject | Política | es_ES |
dc.subject | Sociología | es_ES |
dc.subject.other | Elecciones | es_ES |
dc.subject.other | Estados Unidos | es_ES |
dc.subject.other | Procedimiento electoral | es_ES |
dc.title | The closed primaries vs. the top-two primaries | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper | es_ES |
dc.rights.accessRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
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