In a symmetric information voting model, an individual (information controller) can influence voters’ choices by …-unanimous voting rule, she exploits voters’ heterogeneity by designing a signal with realizations targeting di↵erent winning …-coalitions. Consequently, under simple-majority voting rule, a majority of voters might be strictly worse o↵ due to the controller’s influence …

the probabilistic voting model in political economy. Effects persist after the cash transfer program ends. We estimate …

political knowledge has a sizeable influence on the probability of voting and that mass media play an important role in …

Under sequential voting, voting late enables conditioning on which candidates are viable, while voting early can …'s favorite candidate is significantly better than all others then early voting is disadvantageous and all equilibria are … equivalent to simultaneous voting. Conversely, when some other candidate is almost as good then any Markov, symmetric, anonymous …