Kartik, Navin; McAfee, R. Preston - In: American Economic Review 97 (2007) 3, pp. 852-870
We study a one-dimensional Hotelling-Downs model of electoral competition with the following innovation: a fraction of candidates have "character" and are exogenously committed to a campaign platform; this is unobservable to voters. Character is desirable, and a voter's utility is a convex...