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Speaker:
Susumu Shikano, Bernard Grofman (UC Irvine) and Konstantin Käppner

This interdisciplinary workshop "New Developments in Spatial Models of Party Competition"  by Susumu Shikano, Bernard Grofman (UC Irvine) and Konstantin Käppner brings together some of the most distinguished theoretical and empirical scholars of party competition from Germany and worldwide such as Samuel Merrill, Jim Adams, Franz Urban Pappi and many others. Together, we will discuss new avenues and directions in spatial models of party competition.

Ever since the seminal contribution of Downs that sparked the field of spatial models, theorizing about and the study of party competition in spatial terms has greatly contributed to our understanding of political dynamics. At the same time, the spatial models faces ongoing challenges with regard to the integration of insights from neighbouring fields such as political psychology. Moreover, the measurement and empirical assessment of the sometimes rather abstracts concepts proposed in the theoretical models presents a difficult task for applied researchers. This workshop features some of the latest developments and advances striving to face these challenges and discusses them in an interdisciplinary setting.