Economic essay

Your Essay

The median voter model discussed above is based on many assumptions. For example,

1. Political parties only care about office.

2. The bliss points of voters are uniformly distributed.

In your essay you should rst analyze how the outcomes of the median voter model are affected by the assumption that the bliss points of voters are uniformly distributed.

To this end, assume instead that the bliss points of voters are distributed as in Figure 2

below.