| 来源类型 | FEEM working papers "Note di lavoro" series
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| Contest with Attack and Defence: Does Negative Campaigning Increase or Decrease Voters' Turnout? |
| Raphaël Soubeyran
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| 发表日期 | 2005
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| 出处 | Economy and Society
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| 出版年 | 2005
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | We present a general model of two players contest with two types of efforts. Contrary to the classical models of contest, where each player chooses a unique effort, and where the outcome depends on the efforts of all the players, contestants are allowed to reduce the effort of the opponent. Defence increases one's chance of winning while attack annihilates the defence of the opponent. This model has many applications like political campaigning, wars, competition among lobbies, job promotion competitions, or sport contests. We study the general model of contest with attacks and defence and propose an application to negative political campaigns, where two candidates arbitrate between disparaging their opponent or enhancing their own image. We propose sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of a symmetric Nash equilibrium of the contest game. In the application, we contribute to the empirically debated question dealing with the effect of attack on voters turnout, and show that the conclusion depends on the distribution of voters sensitivity to defence and attack. Furthermore, contrary to the literature, we show that an underdog candidate may be less aggressive than his opponent. |
| 特色分类 | D74,D72,C72
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| 关键词 | Contest,Rent-seeking,Sabotage,Negative campaigning,Turnout
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| URL | https://www.feem.it/en/publications/feem-working-papers-note-di-lavoro-series/contest-with-attack-and-defence-does-negative-campaigning-increase-or-decrease-voters-turnout/
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| 来源智库 | Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (Italy)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/117240
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Raphaël Soubeyran. Contest with Attack and Defence: Does Negative Campaigning Increase or Decrease Voters' Turnout?. 2005.
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NDL2005-128.pdf
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