This paper studies a model of how political parties use resources for campaigning to inform voters. We show existence … following. Consider voters that are informed by one party only, say party 1. If both parties move closer to each other, then the … actual and expected platform moves closer to the indifferent voters peak. By concavity of preferences, the increase in payoff …

ages. This paper presents a representative survey experiment on education spending in Germany, which exhibits low relative … levels to spending on early and primary education. Effects of information provision persist over a two-week period in a …

Information affecting a candidate's reputation might have significant electoral consequences. Do candidates respond to … the release of information? Using Brazilian elections and audits as an exogenous source of information, I show that both … incumbent and challenger increase their campaign spending when detrimental information affects the incumbent's reputation …

Are differences in preferences for redistribution between right and left wing voters amplified because of … misperceptions of inequality? To answer this question, we conduct a nationally representative, randomized survey experiment of 2 …,584 Australians in which respondents either received information about the level of national inequality and economic mobility, their …