Bonilla, Claudio A.Claudio A.Bonilla2023-07-042023-07-042004-10-01https://investigadores.udd.cl/handle/123456789/718710.1007/s11127-004-6157-y2-s2.0-13844322026This study makes use of the concept of ideology to answerimportant questions of political competition. I develop amulticandidate model in which voters use ideology as asimplifying device that helps them to choose a candidate in anoisy environment. Three important results arise for thehomogeneous-polity case. First, the candidate with moreresources is the one more likely to win the election. Second,a merger between two parties might yield to a higher expectedplurality for the candidate of the newly formed party. Third,political convulsion yields to a decrease in the expectedplurality for the incumbent candidate. © 2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers.Resource Types::text::journal::journal article