common Downsian reasoning, rational voters should not be willing to pay for information out of purely instrumental motives … apply when a group of voters shares a common goal such as accountability and information is delivered via mass media. In … instrumental information in these scenarios. Our model thus reconciles the rational voter approach with the common perception of …

and electoral outcomes. The Swiss context offers an ideal setting to identify the causal effects of online information …

probability before the election (Maskin and Tirole's "feedback" case). In the three-period case, with two elections, the dynamic …This paper considers the implications of an important cognitive bias in information processing, confirmation bias, in a … political agency setting. In the baseline two-period case where only the politician's actions are observable before the election …