| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP9012
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| DP9012 Electoral Competition through Issue Selection |
| Micael Castanheira
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| 发表日期 | 2012-06-17
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| 出版年 | 2012
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Politics must tackle multiple issues at once. In a first-best world, political competition constrains parties to prioritize issues according to the voters' true concerns. In the real world, the opposite also happens: parties manipulate voter priorities by emphasizing issues selectively during the political campaign. This phenomenon, known as priming, should allow parties to pay less attention to the issues that they intend to mute.
We develop a model of endogenous issue ownership in which two vote-seeking parties (i) invest to attract voters with "better" policy proposals and (ii) choose a communication campaign to focus voter attention on specific issues. We identify novel feedbacks between
communication and investment. In particular, we find that stronger priming effects can backfire by constraining parties to invest more resources in all issues, including the ones they would otherwise intend to mute. We also identify under which conditions parties
prefer to focus on their "historical issues" or to engage in issue stealing. Typically, the latter happens when priming effects are strong, and historical reputations differentiates parties less. |
| 主题 | Public Economics
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| 关键词 | Electoral competition
Issue selection and ownership
Party strategy
Priming
Salience
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp9012
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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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/537847
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Micael Castanheira. DP9012 Electoral Competition through Issue Selection. 2012.
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