• DOI:10.2307/1953842
Corpus ID: 1161006

An Expository Development of a Mathematical Model of the Electoral Process

@article{Davis1970AnED,
  title={An Expository Development of a Mathematical Model of the Electoral Process},
  author={O. A. Davis and M. Hinich and P. Ordeshook},
  journal={American Political Science Review},
  year={1970},
  volume={64},
  pages={426-448}
}

• O. A. Davis, M. Hinich, P. Ordeshook
• Published 1970
• Sociology
• American Political Science Review

The fundamental process of politics is the aggregation of citizens' preferences into a collective—a social—choice. We develop, interpret, and explain non-technically in this expository essay the definitions, assumptions, and theorems of a mathematical model of one aggregative mechanism—the electoral process. This mechanism is conceptualized here as a multidimensional model of spatial competition in which competition consists of candidates affecting turnout and the electorate's perception… Expand

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