(Not) Addressing Issues in Electoral Campaigns
Barberà, Salvador 1946- (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica)
Gerber, Anke (University of Hamburg)

Publicació:	Barcelona : Barcelona School of Economics, 2022
Descripció:	55 pàg.
Resum:	Two candidates competing for election may raise some issues for debate during the electoral campaign, while avoiding others. We present a model in which the decision to introduce an issue, or to reply to the opponent's position on one that she raised, may result in further additions to the list of topics that end up being discussed. Candidates' strategic decisions are driven by their appraisal of their expected vote share at the end of the campaign. Our analysis appeals to a protocol-free equilibrium concept, and predicts the list of topics that will be touched upon by each candidate, and the order in which they might be addressed. We show that important phenomena observed during campaigns, like the convergence of the parties to address the same issues, or else their diverging choice on which ones to treat, or the relevance of issue ownership can be explained within our stark basic model.
Ajuts:	Agencia Estatal de Investigación CEX2019-000915-S Agencia Estatal de Investigación PID2020-116771GB-I00 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017/SGR-0711
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Llengua:	Anglès
Col·lecció:	BSE Barcelona School of Economics Working Papers ; 1353
Document:	Working paper ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Electoral campaigns ; Issues ; Equilibrium sets of continuation campaigns ; Issue convergence ; Issue divergence ; Issue ownership

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