Issue Advocacy and Mass Political Sophistication

Catherine Hafer and Dimitri Landa

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), 2013, vol. 169, issue 1, 139-152

Abstract: We present a game-theoretic model of political discourse that explores how strategic incentives to make potentially persuasive arguments vary across different informational contexts. We show that political sophistication of the listeners fundamentally affects the speakers' incentives to make informative arguments, increasing the informed speech for speakers who are less likely to be successful in carrying the majority of the audience, and with it, the expected epistemic quality of majority choices.

JEL-codes: D7 D8 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1628/093245613X660500

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