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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 …

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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...

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Information Acquisition, Ideology and Turnout : Theory and Evidence from Britain

Larcinese, Valentino - 2008

The amount of political information that voters decide to acquire during an electoral campaign depends, among other things, on prior ideological beliefs about parties and/or candidates. Voters that are ex ante indifferent about the candidates attach little value to information because they...

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Identification and estimation of preference distributions when voters are ideological

Merlo, Antoine; Paula, Áureo de - 2013

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Habit Formation, Strategic Extremism and Debt Policy

Matsen, Egil; Thogersen, Oystein - 2021

We suggest a probabilistic voting model where voters' preferences for alternative public goods display habit formation. Current policies determine habit levels and in turn the future preferences of the voters. This allows the incumbent to act strategically in order to influence the probability...

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Habit Formation, Strategic Extremism, and Debt Policy

Matsen, Egil; Thogersen, Oystein - 2010

We suggest a probabilistic voting model where voters’ preferences for alternative public goods display habit formation. Current policies determine habit levels and in turn the future preferences of the voters. This allows the incumbent to act strategically in order to influence the probability...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014197897

Policy Polarization and Strategic Candidacy in Elections Under the Alternative Vote Rule

Dellis, Arnaud; Gauthier-Belzile, Alexandre; Oak, Mandar - 2016

We use the citizen-candidate model to study electoral outcomes under the Alternative Vote rule, a voting method often proposed as a replacement to the prevalent Plurality rule. We show that, like the Plurality rule, the Alternative Vote rule deters multiple candidate clusters and the presence of...

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Political Regimes, Party Ideological Homogeneity and Polarization

Castanheira, Micael; Crutzen, Benoît S. Y. - 2023

We develop a model of elections in which parties choose their ideological position and the ideology of their candidates …

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Identification and Estimation of Preference Distributions When Voters are Ideological

Merlo, Antonio; de Paula, Aureo - 2011

This paper studies the nonparametric identification and estimation of voters' preferences when voters are ideological. We build on the methods introduced by Degan and Merlo (2009) representing elections as Voronoi tessellations of the ideological space. We exploit the properties of this...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014187524

Campaign Finance Levels as Coordinating Signals in Three-Way, Experimental Elections

Rietz, Thomas; Myerson, Roger; Weber, Robert J. - 2000

Review, 1993), we model this situation using a simple game theory argument. Then, we study the effectiveness of campaign …

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