A number of recent formal models predict a positive effect of political knowledge on turnout. Both information … proxies of information supply on mass media. Using survey data from the 1997 British General Election Study, I show that … political knowledge has a sizeable influence on the probability of voting and that mass media play an important role in …

In a symmetric information voting model, an individual (information controller) can influence voters’ choices by … designing the information content of a public signal. We characterize the controller’s optimal signal. With a non …-unanimous voting rule, she exploits voters’ heterogeneity by designing a signal with realizations targeting di↵erent winning …

candidates attach little value to information because they perceive that voting itself will have little value. Voters that are ex … impact of increased political knowledge on turnout is asymmetric: New information increase the probability of voting of … information acquisition and turnout that combines the Riker-Ordeshook (1968) approach to voting behaviour with the Becker (1965 …

The arguments for refinancing the European Union’s (EU) higher education via higher tuition fees largely rest on …

be induced by a signal, and provide necessary and sufficient conditions for a sender to benefit from information control …. We examine a class of models with no value of information control under common priors, and show that a sender generically … benefits from information control under heterogeneous priors. We extend our analysis to cases where the receiver’s prior is …