We consider a common-value voting in which the state of the nature is a pair of payoff-relevant state and a variable that determines the precision and the meaning of voters' private signals. Each voter receives noisy signals about both of the states. When the number of voters is sufficiently...

We study a model of two-candidate electoral competition.In our model, each voter has single-peaked preferences for the consequences of policies, but voters receive only partial information about which policies cause their preferred consequences. If voters' utility functions are convex, they...