explicitly political model which emphasizes the behavior and incentives of politicians. We extend the standard voting model to …

to decline with public information about protection. This paper develops an electoral model with heterogeneously informed … endogenously acquires more information about his sector of employment. As a result, voters support protectionism, because they …, asymmetric information induces a universal protectionist bias. The structure of protection is Pareto inefficient, in contrast to …

This paper analyzes a two-alternative voting model with the distinctive feature that voters have preferences over the … and without abstention. Finally, strategic voting (voting for the least preferred alternative) is common for a fraction of …

information about governing politicians not available from challengers. Because there are many reasons for high reelection rates …

, we extend the analysis to characterizing rational expectations of interim types, to games of incomplete information, as …