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What's the point of "Opposition" parties in one party states?
To show a facade of democracy or to create the illusion of inclusiveness and representation.
To provide a consultative role and to be critical, in order for the ruling party to see its own flaws.
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Why doesn't Hotelling's law seem to apply to the stances taken by political parties?
I don't know if the idea originates with him, but William Spaniel presents the interesting idea that poor polling can lead to violations of Hetelling's Law. As I understand it, the argument is that if ...
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Why doesn't Hotelling's law seem to apply to the stances taken by political parties?
There are many good points about how the parties are similar in most ways. There's one thing that helped me understand the behavior of the parties and party voters.
Think of this like sports teams ...
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Why doesn't Hotelling's law seem to apply to the stances taken by political parties?
I think the biggest reason for the persistent distance between opposing party's positions is that people care enough about the issues in question that, if the distance between people's own preferences ...
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Why doesn't Hotelling's law seem to apply to the stances taken by political parties?
The other answers already make a fairly good point, though I think there's value seeing these effects in combination and not just standalone.
So first of all @Starship makes a really good point with a ...
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Why doesn't Hotelling's law seem to apply to the stances taken by political parties?
Ah, the spatial model! Literature on this topic is quite extensive (you could write a whole thesis on it), so I fear it might not be feasible to cover it all in a single answer without major omissions....
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Why doesn't Hotelling's law seem to apply to the stances taken by political parties?
(Like any political theory, the following is very simplified)
In a two-party system, there are (at least) four groups. Using the US as an example:
Democratic non-voters
Democratic voters
Republican ...
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Why doesn't Hotelling's law seem to apply to the stances taken by political parties?
"Hotelling's law" or the "Median voter theorem" says that where customers/voters care only about one variable (e.g. distance or when in a pregnancy abortions should no longer be ...
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Why doesn't Hotelling's law seem to apply to the stances taken by political parties?
Why doesn't Hotelling's law seem to apply to the stances taken by political parties?
TL;DR It does. Mainstream parties agree with each other on almost everything and only debate semantics.
It might ...
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Why doesn't Hotelling's law seem to apply to the stances taken by political parties?
Why don't political parties core ideologies in 2 party systems shift
closer to the mean of both parties as Hotelling's law would predict?
Personal ideologies are more stable than political party time ...
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