Deliberative democracy and electoral competition
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...
Paper Details
Title
Deliberative democracy and electoral competition
Published Date
Jul 1, 2012
Journal
Volume
75
Issue
2
Pages
646 - 667
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