A model of focusing in political choice

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Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/00216208:11640/25:00646390

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

A model of focusing in political choice

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

A model of focusing in political choice

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

JOURNAL OF POLITICS

ISSN

0022-3816

e-ISSN

1468-2508

Svazek periodika

87

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

4

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

17

Strana od-do

1465-1481

Kód UT WoS článku

001514136200003

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105016225999