The Entry of the M5S and the Reshaping of Party Politics in Italy (2008-2018)

This article examines how challenger parties enter the political arena and the effect of this entry by looking at the Italian 5 Star Movement (Movimento 5 Stelle - M5S). We explain the M5S's entry strategy in 2013 using the spatial approach to party competition and employing expert survey data collected for each national election between 2008 and 2018. These data allow us to analyse the changing spatial configuration of Italian politics due to the increasing salience of pro/anti-EU and pro/anti-immigration dimensions. We then apply the theoretical notion of the uncovered set (UCS) to trace how the M5S's entry reshaped the overall space of party competition, causing a realignment of existing parties. This work contributes to the ongoing debate on the electoral success of challenger parties and the emerging cleavages and polarization of party systems in Western European countries

The political institution of private property

IndeksBibliografi hlm. 185-198xiv, 204 hlm. : il. ; 23 cm

Multiparty Democracy : Elections and Legislative Politics /

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Market Equilibria With Not-For-Profit Firms

This paper provides a comprehensive framework to analyze the supply of medical care in a market structure common in the United States. The framework has three novel features: First, it portrays equilibrium quantity, quality, and price in not-for-profit hospital markets, both under conditions of free entry and with regulatory constraints on entry. Second, it shows that many phenomena, commonly attributed to demand inducement and/or explained by "target income" models of physicians' behavior, emerge directly from a standard monopolistic competition model, constrained only by the assumption that consumer search is limited. Third, we link explicitly hospital and physician behavior, showing how each affects the other's cost functions and demand curves. Throughout the paper we provide some stylized evidence to demonstrate the usefulness of our model