Echo Chambers: Voter-to-Voter Communication and Political Competition

Monica Anna Giovanniello

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Abstract: I study how strategic communication among voters shapes both political outcomes and parties' advertising strategies in a model of informative campaign advertising. Two main results are derived. First, echo chambers arise endogenously. Surprisingly, a small ideological distance between voters is not sufficient to guarantee that a chamber is created, bias direction plays a crucial role. Second, when voters' network entails a significant waste of information, parties tailor their advertising to the opponent's supporters rather than to their own.

Date: 2021-04
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Working Paper: Echo Chambers: Voter-to-Voter Communication and Political Competition (2017)
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