A model of focusing in political choice
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11640/25:00646390
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1086/732960" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1086/732960</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/732960" target="_blank" >10.1086/732960</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A model of focusing in political choice
Original language description
This article develops a model of voters’ and politicians’ behavior based on the notion that voters focus disproportionately on and, hence, overweigh the policies in which politicians’ platforms differ more. We introduce focusing in a model of electoral competition between differentiated candidates who invest resources to improve the quality of their policies in multiple common-value issues. We show that voters’ attention distortion leads to greater investment in policy development, greater platform differentiation (with politicians standing out in the policies they are more competent in), and greater investment in divisive policies. Finally, we show that focusing can contribute to explanations of puzzling, stylized facts such as the entry of single-issue parties with no electoral chances or the inverse correlation between income inequality and redistribution.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
JOURNAL OF POLITICS
ISSN
0022-3816
e-ISSN
1468-2508
Volume of the periodical
87
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
1465-1481
UT code for WoS article
001514136200003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105016225999