Technological change, campaign spending and polarization
Fecha
2022Versión
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
Tipo
Artículo / Artikulua
Versión
Versión publicada / Argitaratu den bertsioa
Impacto
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10.1016/j.jpubeco.2022.104666
Resumen
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 ac ...
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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. [--]
Materias
Campaign spending,
Electoral competition,
Endogenous valence,
Impressionable voters,
Office motives,
Semiorder lexicographic preferences
Editor
Elsevier
Publicado en
Journal of Public Economics 211 (2022) 104666
Departamento
Universidad Pública de Navarra/Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Institute for Advanced Research in Business and Economics - INARBE
Versión del editor
Entidades Financiadoras
Financial support from the Agencia Estatal de
Investigación (AEI) and the European Regional Development Funds (ERDF) through
grants ECO2017-86305-C4-1-R (Balart) and ECO2017-85763-R (Casas) is acknowl-
edged. Casas acknowledges financial support from Fundación Ramón Areces through
the XIX Concurso Nacional para la Adjudicación de Ayudas a la Investigación en
Ciencias Sociales. The project leading to these results also received funding from ‘‘la
Caixa” Foundation, under the agreement LCF/PR/PR13/51080004 (Casas)