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VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1, 2007 <Previous Next>

Nomination Processes and Policy Outcomes

Matthew O. Jackson
Laurent Mathevet
Kyle Mattes


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Matthew O. Jackson, Laurent Mathevet and Kyle Mattes (2007) "Nomination Processes and Policy Outcomes", Quarterly Journal of Political Science: Vol. 2:No 1, pp 67-94. http:/dx.doi.org/10.1561/100.00006043

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We provide a set of new models of three different processes by which political par-ties nominate candidates for a general election: nominations by party leaders,nominations by a vote of party members, and nominations by a spending competition among potential candidates. We show that more extreme outcomes can emerge from spending competition than from nominations by votes or by party leaders, and that non-median outcomes can result via any of these processes. When voters (and potential nominees) are free to switch political parties, then median outcomes ensue when nominations are decided by a vote but not when nominations are decided by spending competition.

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