experiments on public goods, participation games, rent-seeking and lobbying, and spatial voting. …

We develop a tractable theory to study the impact of biased media on election outcomes, voter turnout and welfare. News …

particular they predict (i) a Polarization Effect: reduced strategic party choice when voting is voluntary makes voters more … likely to vote for extreme parties (conditional on voting at all); (ii) an Extremist Effect: voters supporting extreme … world elections. Hence, the interaction between turnout and strategic voting that has been neglected in most of the previous …