The amount of political information that voters decide to acquire during an electoral campaign depends, among other … things, on prior ideological beliefs about parties and/or candidates. Voters that are ex ante indifferent about the … candidates attach little value to information because they perceive that voting itself will have little value. Voters that are ex …

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 …

decisions to changes in the environment. We show that even if lower-level managers have superior information about local … conditions, and incentive conflicts are negligible, a centralized organization can be better at adapting to local information …

absorb new health-related information. The measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) controversy provides a case where, for a short …