If, in a two-person race, you will vote for whomever is is closest to your position, even if they’re only a tiny deviation from he median towards you and their opponent is a tiny deviation away from you, then candidates are incentivized to cater as closely as possible to the median voter.
Many factors complicate this in real life elections, but it’s still a good concrete start.
This is mostly just applied Game Theory for theoretical political science and Basic Statistics for empirical political science, so I upvoted those instead.
The math of politics
Median Voter Theorem is a good one.
If, in a two-person race, you will vote for whomever is is closest to your position, even if they’re only a tiny deviation from he median towards you and their opponent is a tiny deviation away from you, then candidates are incentivized to cater as closely as possible to the median voter.
Many factors complicate this in real life elections, but it’s still a good concrete start.
Applied Game Theory!
This is mostly just applied Game Theory for theoretical political science and Basic Statistics for empirical political science, so I upvoted those instead.