, but candidates are not allowed to bluntly lie about their ideology. Every voter votes for the candidate she expects to be … any prudent rationalizable election outcome is the same as if voters have full awareness of issues and complete …

We study both theoretically and experimentally the set of Nash equilibria of a classical one-dimensional election game … with two candidates. These candidates are interested in power and ideology, but their weights on these two motives are not …., ideology) and the uncertainty about voters' preferences. The theoretical predictions are supported by the data collected from a …

We develop a tractable theory to study the impact of biased media on election outcomes, voter turnout and welfare. News … elections, the former determines the election outcome, whereas the latter drives voter turnout. With a single media outlet, a … rise in media bias affects the election outcome in a non-monotonic way, and reduces voter welfare by decreasing the …