promises, and explores the distributional consequences of this decision, in a setting where party credibility can vary. When … campaign promises. When political credibility is sufficiently low, some voter groups are targeted only with vote buying and not … with promises of post-electoral transfers. Stronger electoral competition reduces rent seeking but increases vote buying …

We suggest a model of electoral competition between two parties which is extended by a third player : mass media. The … classical one-dimensional competition model is changed by introducing an issue-specific sensibility-coefficient and by allowing … current policy choice. Deviating from (exogenous) traditional party policy reduces the credibility of a party in the eyes of …

We provide a game-theoretical model of manipulative election campaigns with two political candidates and a continuum of … space. Candidates take unobservable, costly actions to manipulate a campaign signal that would otherwise be fully … informative about a candidate's distance from voters relative to the other candidate. We show that if the candidates differ in …

competition. As existing research conceptualizes political competition mainly as a macro- or party-level phenomenon, the micro … perspective remains underdeveloped and, therefore, an important dimension of political competition, the availability of votes, is … ignored. We introduce and discuss an individualized measure of electoral competition that is based on propensities to vote as …