Editing Median voter theorem (section)

==Uses of the median voter theorem==
The theorem is valuable for the light it sheds on the optimality (and the limits to the optimality) of certain voting systems.

Valerio Dotti points out broader areas of application:
<blockquote>The ''Median Voter Theorem'' proved extremely popular in the Political Economy literature. The main reason is that it can be adopted to derive testable implications about the relationship between some characteristics of the voting population and the policy outcome, abstracting from other features of the political process.<ref name="dotti-2016"/></blockquote>

He adds that...
<blockquote>The median voter result has been applied to an incredible variety of questions. Examples are the analysis of the relationship between income inequality and size of governmental intervention in redistributive policies (Meltzer and Richard, 1981),<ref>A. H. Meltzer and  S. F. Richard, "A Rational Theory of the Size of Government" (1981).</ref> the study of the determinants of immigration policies (Razin and Sadka, 1999),<ref>A. Razin and E. Sadka "Migration and Pension with International Capital Mobility" (1999).</ref> of the extent of taxation on different types of income (Bassetto and Benhabib, 2006),<ref>M. Bassetto and J. Benhabib, "Redistribution, Taxes, and the Median Voter" (2006).</ref> and many more.</blockquote>