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Ideology
Benabou, Roland - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
I develop a model of ideologies as collectively sustained (yet individually rational) distortions in beliefs concerning the proper scope of governments versus markets. In processing and interpreting signals of the efficacy of public and market provision of education, health insurance, pensions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830746
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Overconfidence in Political Behavior
Ortoleva, Pietro; Snowberg, Erik - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper studies, theoretically and empirically, the role of overconfidence in political behavior. Our model of overconfidence in beliefs predicts that overconfidence leads to ideological extremeness, increased voter turnout, and increased strength of partisan identification. Moreover, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184252
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Bias in Cable News: Real Effects and Polarization
Martin, Gregory J.; Yurukoglu, Ali - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We jointly measure the persuasive effects of slanted news and tastes for like-minded news. The key ingredient is using channel positions as exogenous shifters of cable news viewership. Local cable positions affect viewership by cable subscribers. They do not correlate with viewership by local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105922
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Left, Right, Left: Income, Learning and Political Dynamics
Morrow, John; Carter, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
The political left turn in Latin America, which lagged its transition to liberalized market economies by a decade or more, challenges conventional economic explanations of voting behavior. This paper generalizes the forward-looking voter model to a broad range of dynamic, non-concave income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950705
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Special Interests and the Media: Theory and an Application to Climate Change
Shapiro, Jesse - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
I present a model in which competing special interests seek policy influence through the news media. In the model a journalist reports on expert opinion to a voter. Two competing interested parties can invest to acquire credentialed advocates to represent their positions in the press. Because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821722
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Who Misvotes? The Effect of Differential Cognition Costs on Election Outcomes
Luttmer, Erzo F.P.; Shue, Kelly - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
If voters are fully rational and have negligible cognition costs, ballot layout should not affect election outcomes. In … from the 2003 California Recall Election. We find that the voteshares of minor candidates almost double when their names … the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election and the 2004 Washington Gubernatorial Election. We explore which voting technology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085337
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New Evidence on the Formation of Trade Policy Preferences
Blonigen, Bruce A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
American National Election Studies. I first show that both an individual's skills and the international trade characteristics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720562
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Misconceptions and Political Outcomes
Romer, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997
exposing representatives to information after their election do. Concentration of power has ambiguous effects. Finally, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828507
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Electoral Acceleration: The Effect of Minority Population on Minority Voter Turnout
Waldfogel, Joel; Oberholzer-Gee, Felix - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001
Political outcomes are well understood to depend on the spatial distribution of citizen preferences. In this paper, we document that the same holds for the individual decision to be politically active. Using both cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence on turnout, we show that citizens are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828607
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Government Transfers and Political Support
Miguel, Edward Andrew; Manacorda, Marco; Vigorito, Andrea - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
persistent impacts are consistent with a model of rational but poorly informed voters learning about politicians' redistributive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828613