Deliberative democracy and electoral competition

Patrick Hummel

Games and Economic Behavior, 2012, vol. 75, issue 2, 646-667

Abstract: This paper introduces a model of electoral competition in which candidates select policies and voters are then exposed to arguments in favor of the policies. Voters update their beliefs about their own private preferences after listening to arguments and then vote in the election. I show that candidates adopt more divergent policies when voters are exposed to more arguments before the election.

Keywords: Deliberation; Elections; Learning; Policy selection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2012.02.004

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