11:20 - 13:00
P2
Room:
Room: Meeting Room 2.1
Panel Session 2
Giovanna Invernizzi - Electoral Volatility and Pre-Electoral Alliances
Peter Buisseret - Politics Transformed? How Instant-Runoff Voting Shapes Electoral Strategies
Philipp Schroeder - ‘Never tell me the odds’: Why lawmakers should take constitutional risks
Greg Sasso - Platform Competition with Voting Costs
Jan Zapal - Sequential Vote Buying
Platform Competition with Voting Costs
P2-5
Presented by: Greg Sasso
Greg Sasso
Emory University
How do changes in voting costs affect vote shares, platform choice, and polarization? To answer these questions, we analyze a standard spatial model of elections with two key modifications: There are two distinct groups of voters, and these groups have different costs of voting. We find that as voting costs increase for one group, the party favored by the other group chooses more extreme platforms. However, the probability of one group winning or their vote share does not necessarily change as costs change.