Super Tuesday: campaign finance and the dynamics of sequential elections

Rainer Schwabe

Social Choice and Welfare, 2015, vol. 44, issue 4, 927-951

Abstract: I develop a model of campaign finance in primary elections in which campaigns, which supply hard information about candidates’ electability, must be financed by strategic donors. I provide a rationale for Super Tuesday electoral calendars in which a block of voters vote simultaneously early in the election followed by other voters voting sequentially. For a range of campaign costs, such a calendar maximizes expected donations to nomination campaigns and, thus, the ex-ante probability of electing the best candidate over all possible electoral calendars. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

Date: 2015
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