Political Spaces, Dimensionality Decline and Party Competition

García-Díaz, César; Zambrana-Cruz, Gilmar; Witteloostuijn, A. van

doi:10.1142/s0219525913500197

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“…Let Var be a nonempty set of variables (intended to represent topics or issues, as in e.g. [17]). As was done in [4], for the purpose of this analysis, a socio-political theory is characterized by (and here identified with) a certain subset X ⊆ Var of issues which are relevant to the given theory.…”

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Modelling socio-political competition

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Fuzzy Sets and Systems

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This paper continues the investigation of the logic of competing theories (be they scientific, social, political etc.) initiated in [4]. We introduce a many-valued, multi-type modal language which we endow with relational semantics based on enriched reflexive graphs, inspired by Ploica's representation of general lattices. We axiomatize the resulting many-valued, non-distributive modal logic of these structures and prove a completeness theorem. We illustrate the application of this logic through a case study in which we model competition among interacting political promises and social demands within an arena of political parties social groups.

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Section: Case Study: the Socio-political Arenamentioning

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Modelling socio-political competition

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“…Applying other distance measures (e.g., Euclidean distance or the largest of the shortest paths among the network of variants) is also possible. But since attributes have different units of measure, having the firm computing the pairwise product variant dissimilarity per attribute, and figuring out the aggregated largest distance of its served variants, is a more reasonable rule (a similar approach has been used to compute preference dissimilarity in voting systems; see [49]).…”

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The coevolution of the firm and the product attribute space

2020

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Traditionally, firm competition has been studied in contexts where the dimensionality of the product attribute space is given, and firms deploy their strategies constrained by this space. However, firms may exert influence on the local structure of the product attribute space by offering product variants with new attributes. As a result, the geometry of the product attribute space would change endogenously through firms' actions, and this emergent new geometry modifies the conditions for subsequent firm behavior. By focusing on this interplay between actors and conditions, we explore the co-evolution of the firm and the product attribute space. Through a multi-variant Cournot competition framework, we develop a computational model in which firms invest to differentiate their products from other variants, but as minimally as possible so that demand from closely similar existing variants can be stolen. We introduce the fraction dimensionality of the attribute space as our critical independent variable, to reflect saturation of the space with product varieties. The simulation reveals that while new product variants are typically introduced by firms with scale economies, their performance gap with firms without scale economies reduces as fraction dimensionality increases. This indicates that space geometry evolution may favor small-scale players, even when their large-scale competitors are the driving force behind attribute space changes. 1 Introduction: Commodity space evolution Attribute spaces display how demand for, and supply of, organizational services distributes over a number of attributes, or dimensions, that characterize the offerings [1]. As the number of product attributes taken into account by economic actors is a natural number, we straightforwardly associate the complexity of the attribute space with its positive integer dimensionality. The attribute space can be a commodity space spun by product characteristics that prospective customers evaluate [1, 2, 3], a market place that combines product design and product quality features [4], or a political issue space within which political representation is offered [5, 6]. In organization science, this can be a Blau-space [7] dimensioned by people's

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“…In contrast, we focus on the very structure of the multi-dimensional market space. More specifically, we theorize how the number of relevant dimensions defining the market space does change (Garcia-Diaz et al 2013;Péli and Nooteboom 1999) and how such changes may trigger the emergence of new entrepreneurial populations.…”

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“…Aiming to further develop this embryonic demandside perspective, our feature dimensionality approach conceptualizes a market as a multi-dimensional sociocognitive space in which each feature dimension represents a critical aspect of social demand from resource holders (Garcia-Diaz et al 2013;Péli and Nooteboom 1999). This theoretical approach offers two major advantages for addressing the question of entrepreneurial population emergence.…”

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Emergence of entrepreneurial populations: a feature dimensionality approach

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Witteloostuijn

2018

Small Bus Econ

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This paper studies how increasing dimensionality in a market space feeds into the emergence of a sustainable entrepreneurial population-energy cooperatives in Germany. Our theoretical model conceptualizes the market as a multi-dimensional feature space and offers insights as to when and where new types of entrepreneurial activities emerge. We demonstrate that (1) the rise of a socio-cognitive dimension greenness created novel social demand and opened opportunities for sustainable entrepreneurship and (2) sustainable entrepreneurial organizations are more likely to be founded in communities with higher local demand for greenness. Our paper contributes to research on entrepreneurial population emergence and sustainable entrepreneurship.

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Political Spaces, Dimensionality Decline and Party Competition

Cited by 5 publications

References 55 publications

Modelling socio-political competition

Modelling socio-political competition

The coevolution of the firm and the product attribute space

Emergence of entrepreneurial populations: a feature dimensionality approach

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