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Gratton, Gabriele - 2013

We study an election with two perfectly informed candidates. Voters share common values over the policy outcome of the … election, but possess arbitrarily little information about which policy is best for them. Voters elect one of the candidates …

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Manipulated Voters in Competitive Election Campaigns

Aköz, Kemal Kıvanç - 2015

We provide a game-theoretical model of manipulative election campaigns with two political candidates and a continuum of …-efficient candidate wins the election even if she is more distant from the electorate than her opponent is. In contrast to the existing … election campaign models that do not support information manipulation in equilibrium, our paper rationalizes misleading …

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Contestable Leaderships : Party Discipline and Vote Buying in Legislatures

Iaryczower, Matias - 2007

This paper examines the institutional determinants of discipline in legislative parties building on the premise that leaders need to maintain support within the organization to continue leading. Payments distributed by the incumbent on the spot increase the value of promises of future benefits...

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Do polls create momentum in political competition?

Denter, Philipp; Sisak, Dana - 2013 - This version: October 2013

We explore how public opinion polls affect candidates' campaign spending in political competition. Generally, polls lead to (more) asymmetric behavior. Under a majority rule there always exists an equilibrium in which the initially more popular candidate invests more in the campaign and thereby...

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The right look : conservative politicians look better and voters reward it

Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2015

Since good-looking politicians win more votes, a beauty advantage for politicians on the left or on the right is bound to have political consequences. We show that politicians on the right look more beautiful in Europe, the United States and Australia. Our explanation is that beautiful people...

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Electoral control when policies are for sale

Farvaque, Étienne; Lagadec, Gael - 2009

This article analyses the dynamics of electoral promises, building on an electoral competition model with endogenous policies. It extends the Grossman-Helpman (1994) model [Grossman G., Helpman E. [1994], "Protection for sale", American Economic Review, 84, 4, 833-850] to include sanctions from...

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Information in elections : do third inflexible candidates always promote truthful behavior?

Andina-Díaz, Ascensión - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 7 (2016) 3, pp. 307-339

We model an election between two Downsian mainstream candidates and a third inflexible politician. There is uncertainty …

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Vote buying or campaign promises? : electoral strategies when party credibility is limited

Hanusch, Marek; Keefer, Philip; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2016

What explains significant variation across countries in the use of vote buying instead of campaign promises to secure voter support? This paper explicitly models the tradeoff parties face between engaging in vote buying and making campaign promises, and explores the distributional consequences...

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A banana republic? : trust in electoral institutions in Western democracies : evidence from a presidential election in Austria

Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2016

democracies. The second ballot of the 2016 Presidential election in Austria needed to be repeated because of inconsistencies in …

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Populism

Frisell, Lars - 2004

In their pursuit of being elected, politicians might not provide their constituents with independent viewpoints, but just try to outguess popular opinion. Although rational voters see through such populism, candidates can not resist resorting to it when the spoils of office are too large. For an...

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