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Vaccari, Federico - 2022

This paper analyzes the implications of those types of interventions that affect misreporting costs. I study a model of communication between an uninformed voter and a media outlet that knows the quality of two competing candidates. The alternatives available to the voter are endogenously...

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Political parties, clientelism, and bureaucratic reform

Cruz, Cesi; Keefer, Philip - 2015

implementation of government policy. Using new data from 439 World Bank public sector reform loans in 109 countries, we demonstrate …The challenge of public administration reform is well-known: politicians often have little interest in the efficient … second mechanism through which non-programmatic parties undermine public sector reform: clientelistic politicians have weaker …

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Bounded rationality and voting decisions exploring a 160-year period

Stadelmann, David; Torgler, Benno - 2012

Using a natural voting experiment in Switzerland that encompasses a 160-year period (1848-2009), we investigate whether a higher level of complexity leads to increased reliance on expert knowledge. We find that when more referenda are held on the same day, constituents are more likely to refer...

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Media and social capital

Campante, Filipe R.; Durante, Ruben; Tesei, Andrea - 2021

We survey the empirical literature in economics on the impact of media technologies on social capital. Motivated by a simple model of information and collective action, we cover a range of different outcomes related to social capital, from social and political participation to interpersonal...

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Trustful voters, trustworthy politicians : a survey experiment on the influence of social media in politics

Aruguete, Natalia; Calvo, Ernesto; Scartascini, Carlos G.; … - 2021

online messages and the decline in political trust around the world. To evaluate this claim causally, we implement a variant …

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Spatial advertisement in political campaigns

Prummer, Anja - 2016

This paper characterizes the optimal advertising strategy of candidates in an election campaign, where groups of heterogeneous voters are targeted through media outlets. We discuss its effects on the implemented policy and relate it to the well-documented increase in polarization. Additionally,...

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Whom to lobby? : targeting in political networks

Groll, Thomas; Prummer, Anja - 2016

We study lobbying in a setting in which decision-makers share resources in a network. Two opposing interest groups choose which decision-maker they want to target with their resource provision, and their decision depends on the decision-makers' ideologies as well as the network structure. We...

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The swing voter's curse in social networks

Buechel, Berno; Mechtenberg, Lydia - 2017

We study private communication in social networks prior to a majority vote on two alternative policies. Some (or all) agents receive a private imperfect signal about which policy is correct. They can, but need not, recommend a policy to their neighbors in the social network prior to the vote. We...

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Civic engagement in the Americas

Scartascini, Carlos G.; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2018

This paper estimates the effect of voting eligibility on civic engagement measured along three dimensions: political motivation, political activities, and political knowledge. These outcomes originate in the AmericasBarometer 2004-2016 surveys of eligible voters. To identify the effects the...

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Between agora and shopping mall

Falkinger, Josef - 2008

Advertisements provide consumers with knowledge about private products, whereas political information is required to provide voters with knowledge of public issues. Modern information technologies and globalisation are increasing the exposure of individuals to information. Goods advertising is...

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