Previous literature has found that extending the suffrage to both females and poorer voters increases the supply of … nationally, creating variation across municipalities in the share of new voters following each extension of the suffrage. This …

– programmatic public goods salient to poor voters – and an improvement in health and school infrastructure outcomes. The impacts are … larger in small municipalities, consistent with voters being more pivotal in less populous ones …

exogenously given and the provision of a public good is financed through a proportional tax. Voters and politicians do not know … information trap. …

How do voters allocate costly attention to alternative political issues? And how does selective ignorance of voters … rationally inattentive voters. Rational inattention amplifies the effects of preference intensity, because voters pay more … that extremist voters are more attentive and inuential, public goods are under-provided, divisive issues receive more …

This paper studies how voters optimally allocate costly attention in a model of probabilistic voting. The equilibrium … solves a modified social planning problem that reflects voters' choice of attention. Voters are more attentive when their … stakes are higher, when their cost of information is lower and prior uncertainty is higher. We explore the implications of …

How do voters allocate costly attention to alternative political issues? And how does selective ignorance of voters … rationally inattentive voters. Rational inattention amplifies the effects of preference intensity, because voters pay more … that extremist voters are more attentive and inuential, public goods are under-provided, divisive issues receive more …