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More or Less Data? Information Acquisition in Asymmetric Elections
Sharma, Priyanka; Wagman, Liad - 2020
We demonstrate that a candidate competing in an asymmetric Tullock election contest may prefer that their rival candidate has access to information they themselves do not have. In the model, the extent of asymmetry between the candidates is ex-ante uncertain, but candidates can acquire...
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How do voters respond to information? : evidence from a randomized campaign
Kendall, Chad; Nannicini, Tommaso; Trebbi, Francesco - 2013
expose different areas of the polity to controlled informational treatments about the valence and ideology of the incumbent … ideology. We find that both valence and ideological messages affect the first and second moments of the belief distribution …, but only campaigning on valence brings more votes to the incumbent. With respect to ideology, cross-learning occurs, as …
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How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign
Kendall, Chad - 2013
expose different areas of the polity to controlled informational treatments about the valence and ideology of the incumbent … elicited beliefs, we are able to structurally assess the relative weights voters place upon a candidate's valence and ideology … only campaigning on valence brings more votes to the incumbent. With respect to ideology, cross-learning occurs, as voters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083096
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An International Comparison of Voting by Committees
Jung, Alexander - 2011
This paper provides new empirical evidence on policy-makers' voting patterns on interest rates. Applying (pooled) Taylor-type rules and using real-time information available from published inflation reports and voting records, the paper tests for heterogeneity among committee members in three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120227
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Political Parties : Insights from a Tri-Planar Model of Political Economy
Hebert, David J. - 2017
What is the place of political parties within a democratic system of political economy? Parties are often described as intermediaries that lubricate the political process by facilitating the matching of voter preferences with candidate positions. This line of analysis flows from a bi-planar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972069
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Politicized scientists : credibility cost of political expression on Twitter
Alabrese, Eleonora; Capozza, Francesco; Garg, Prashant - 2024
The study measures scientists’ polarization on social media and its impact on public perceptions of their credibility. Analyzing 98,000 scientists on Twitter from 2016 to 2022 reveals significant divergence in expressed political opinions. An experiment assesses the impact of online political...
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Ideology without ideologists
Mechtenberg, Lydia (contributor) - 2007
is high, swing voter behavior can solve the problem. -- Information transmission ; signalling ; ideology ; intraparty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003633611
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Identification and estimation of preference distributions when voters are ideological
Merlo, Antonio; Paula, Áureo de - 2015 - This version: September, 2015
This paper studies the nonparametric identification and estimation of voters' preferences when voters are ideological. We establish that voter preference distributions and other parameters of interest can be identified from aggregate electoral data. We also show that these objects can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317976
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Identification and Estimation of Preference Distributions When Voters are Ideological, Second Version
Merlo, Antonio - 2013
This paper studies the nonparametric identification and estimation of voters' preferences when voters are ideological. We establish that voter preference distributions and other parameters of interest can be identified from aggregate electoral data. We also show that these objects can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074791
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Identification and estimation of preference distributions when voters are ideological
Merlo, Antoine; Paula, Áureo de - 2013
This paper studies the nonparametric identification and estimation of voters' preferences when voters are ideological. We establish that voter preference distributions and other parameters of interest can be identified from aggregate electoral data. We also show that these objects can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189045