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| Author: | Schultz, C. |
| Title: | Strategic campaigns and redistributive politics |
| Journal: | Economic Journal
2007 : JUL, VOL. 117:522, p. 936-963 |
| Index terms: | communication political parties strategic management voting |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper examines strategic campaigning by two parties when politics concern redistribution. In the setup, the voters do not know whether parties give preference to some groups, and parties choose to direct the campaigns on groups where informing policies results in most votes gained. This leads to a situation in which the most intensive campaigning is targeted to groups where the uncertainty is largest and where voters are most mobile, most likely to vote, most receptive to campaigns and relatively uninformed initially. The author considers also the welfare effects. |
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