Arbeitspapier
Political awareness and microtargeting of voters in electoral competition
In modern elections, ideologically motivated candidates with a wealth of information about individual voters and sophisticated campaign strategies are faced by voters who lack awareness of some political issues and are uncertain about the exact political positions of candidates. This is the context in which we analyze electoral competition between two ideologically fixed candidates and a finite set of voters. Each political issue corresponds to a dimension of a multidimensional policy space in which candidates' and voters' most preferred policy points are located. Candidates can target messages to subsets of voters. A candidate's message consists of a subset of issues and some information on her political position in the subspace spanned by this subset of issues. The information provided can be vague, it can be even silent on some issues, but candidates are not allowed to bluntly lie about their ideology. Every voter votes for the candidate she expects to be closest to her but takes into account only the subspace spanned by the issues that come up during the campaign. We show that any prudent rationalizable election outcome is the same as if voters have full awareness of issues and complete information of policy points, both in parliamentary and presidential elections. We show by examples that these results depend on the strength of electoral competition, the ability to target information to voters, and the political reasoning abilities of voters.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 12-4
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Noncooperative Games
Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations
Capitalist Systems: Political Economy
- Thema
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electoral competition
multidimensional policy space
microtargeting
dog-whistle politics
ideological candidates
verifiable information
unawareness
framing
prudent rationalizability
forward-induction
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Schipper, Burkhard C.
Woo, Hee Yeul
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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University of California, Department of Economics
- (wo)
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Davis, CA
- (wann)
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2012
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Schipper, Burkhard C.
- Woo, Hee Yeul
- University of California, Department of Economics
Entstanden
- 2012
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