Seminar Series

2023 - 2024

Speaker: Dan Bernhardt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) .

Title: “Political Competition and Strategic Voting in Multi-Candidate Elections”.

joint with S. Krasa (U of Illinois) and F. Squintani (U of Warwick).

Date: Thursday, May 30th at 12h30 (Paris Time).

Abstract: We develop a model of strategic voting in a spatial setting with multiple candidates when voters have both expressive and instrumental concerns. The model endogenizes the strategic coordination of voters, yet is flexible enough to allow the analysis of political platform competition by policy-motivated candidates. We characterize all strategic voting equilibria in a three-candidate setting. Highlighting the utility of our approach, we analyze a setting with two mainstream and a spoiler candidate, showing that the spoiler can gain from entering, even though she has no chance of winning the election and reduces the winning probability of her preferred mainstream candidate.

Here is a link to the speaker’s and the FEELab website:

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/mdbernhardt/

https://sites.google.com/view/feelabtbs/

You are cordially invited to participate in the following seminar of the FEELab, which will take place in Room 101, Bosco building

For more information, please contact: Pierre Mella-Barral p.mella-barral@tbs-education.fr