Technological change, campaign spending and polarization

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2022

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Balart, Pau
Troumpounis, Orestis

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Elsevier
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Abstract

We present a model of electoral competition with endogenous platforms and campaign spending where the division of voters between impressionable and ideological is also endogenous and depends on parties’ strategic platform choices. Our approach results in a tractable model that provides interesting compara- tive statics on the effect of recent technological advancements. For instance, we can accommodate a new justification behind the well-documented simultaneous increase in campaign spending and polarization: an increase in the effectiveness of electoral advertising, or a decrease in the electorate’s political aware- ness, surely increases polarization and may also increase campaign spending.

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Campaign spending, Electoral competition, Endogenous valence, Impressionable voters, Office motives, Semiorder lexicographic preferences

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Institute for Advanced Research in Business and Economics - INARBE

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Balart, P., Casas, A., & Troumpounis, O. (2022). Technological change, campaign spending and polarization. Journal of Public Economics, 211, 104666. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2022.104666

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2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license

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