Debates: Voting and Expenditure Responses to Political Communication
Abstract
Candidate debates have a rich history and remain integral to contemporary campaign strategy. There is, however, little evidence that they affect the behavior of voters or politicians. The scarcity of political information in the developing world offers an attractive testing ground. Using experimental variation in Sierra Leone, we find that public debate screenings build political knowledge that changes the way people vote, which induces a...
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Title
Debates: Voting and Expenditure Responses to Political Communication
Published Date
Aug 1, 2020
Journal
Volume
128
Issue
8
Pages
2880 - 2924
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