POLI 100B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Voting System, Group Voting Ticket, Ideal Point
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Coherently explain the political behavior that we observe. A lot of people care about this: social scientists, politicians, citizens. Reporters: individual events with winners and losers. Struggle between monied interests in both parties. Focus on the interaction between individuals and institutions. Group behaviors (i. e. congress) is the product of individual preferences and institutions. How does decision making proceed without institutions. How does decision making proceed with institutions. Key assumption: we can examine political behavior on a single issue using a. We"re going to assume that we have so many people that they take up each parcel. 50%/50% live to the left v to the right. The halfway point is important because whoever lives closer to which store, that is the store they typically shop at. The store with less customers moves more towards the center point, resulting in acquiring even more customers than the competing store.
