Thinking Like a Mathematician
The Median Voter Theorem
Why politicians move to the center
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6 min readOct 11, 2019
In microeconomics and game theory, the median voter theorem states that
“In a majority rule voting system, the candidate/party most preferred by the median voter will be elected”
In other words, the favorite candidate of the person in the middle of the probability distribution picks the winner of the election. The prediction of the…
