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Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Bounded Rationality and Elections | p. 1 |
Framing and Representations | p. 5 |
Heuristics | p. 8 |
Aspiration-based Adaptation and Bounded Rationality | p. 12 |
Plan of This Book | p. 21 |
Aspiration-based Adaptive Rules | p. 23 |
ABARs Defined | p. 23 |
Some Important Properties of ABARs | p. 33 |
The Evidential Status of Aspiration-based Adaptation | p. 46 |
Party Competition | p. 52 |
Related Work | p. 54 |
The Model and Its Implications | p. 56 |
Informed and/or Sophisticated Challengers | p. 68 |
Robustness Issues | p. 74 |
Conclusions | p. 78 |
Turnout | p. 80 |
The Model | p. 82 |
Main Results | p. 85 |
Variations in Participation | p. 96 |
Conclusions | p. 107 |
Voter Choice | p. 109 |
The Model | p. 112 |
The Endogenous Emergence of Party Affiliation | p. 116 |
Misperceptions | p. 121 |
Retrospection and Prospection Combined | p. 122 |
Voter Sophistication and Electoral Outcomes | p. 124 |
Institutions and Unsophisticated Retrospective Voters | p. 128 |
Conclusions | p. 130 |
An Integrated Model of Two-Party Elections | p. 132 |
Full Computational Model for Two Parties | p. 134 |
Some Results of the Basic Integrated Model | p. 138 |
The Choices of Voters | p. 141 |
Party Location | p. 145 |
Turnout | p. 148 |
New Questions | p. 152 |
Conclusion | p. 159 |
Elections with Multiple Parties | p. 161 |
Extending Our Results to Multiple Parties | p. 161 |
Multicandidate Competition and Duverger's Law | p. 166 |
The Model and Simulation Results | p. 173 |
An Intuition | p. 180 |
ABARs and Dynamic Stability | p. 183 |
Model Meets Data | p. 184 |
Conclusions: Bounded Rationality and Elections | p. 191 |
Testing the Theory | p. 194 |
Normative Considerations: Voter Error and Systemic Performance | p. 196 |
Extensions | p. 198 |
Proofs | p. 205 |
The Computational Model | p. 215 |
Overview | p. 215 |
Graphical Model | p. 216 |
Batch Model | p. 229 |
Bibliography | p. 233 |
Index | p. 249 |
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