1. Electoral Systems and Candidate Strategies 1.Last time 2.Schlesinger and the homework 3.Ames and electoral systems

2. Last time Multiplayer Prisoners’ dilemma –team production with payoffs a function of average contribution – free rider problem –team production with payoffs a function of minimum contribution (weakest link) Coordination with conflict –multiple agreements possible, but the deals are asymmetric How do you overcome these problems without binding contracts?

3. Prisoner’s dilemma/Stag Hunt Cooperate ~Cooperate Cooperate Strong collective, weak personal rep. for both Player 2 Player 1 weak, weak; weak, strong w,s; w, s w,s; w, w

4. Schlesinger reading Think of parties as office-seeking coalitions In order to say something coherent about party organizations (the collective efforts to gain and hold offices), we need to know something about: –the structure of political opportunities (e.g., the rules for office-seeking) –the party system (competitive relations between coalitions)

5. 1 st Homework assignment Write no more than 3 double-spaced pages (exclusive of title/abstract page and references page) on the following: –Joseph Schlesinger argued that “new” political parties emerged in American politics after World War II. What was “new” about them and why did they emerge when they did? Alternatively, if you disagree with Schlesinger, what is wrong with his argument? Include a one-paragraph (short!) abstract on a separate title page, summarizing your answer 3-paragraph introduction: hook, thesis, roadmap Due in class Oct. 13

6. Ames and Electoral Systems What is open-list PR? –voters cast a vote for both a party and a candidate (or, in the Brazilian case, either, but not both) –votes are aggregated by district and party; candidates within a party are ordered by how many individual votes they received in the district –candidates thus compete both across parties and within them for seats