Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Pau Balart
Author-Name-First: Pau
Author-Name-Last: Balart
Author-Name: Agustin Casas
Author-Name-First: Agustin
Author-Name-Last: Casas
Author-Name: Orestis Troumpounis
Author-Name-First: Orestis
Author-Name-Last: Troumpounis
Title: Technological change, campaign spending and polarization
Abstract: We focus on changes in technology and campaign management to study the documented simultaneous increase in campaign spending and polarization. In our model, some voters are ideological while others are impressionable. If the distribution of voters between types is endogenous and depends on parties' platform choices, our results show that a) an increase in the effectiveness of electoral advertising or a decrease in the electorate's political awareness, surely increases polarization and may also increase campaign spending, while b) a decrease in the cost of advertising<br/>does not affect neither polarization nor spending.
Creation-Date: 2019
File-URL: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/documents/lums/economics/working-papers/LancasterWP2019_015.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Number: 269238020
Classification-JEL: D72
Keywords: electoral competition, campaign spending, impressionable voters, semiorder lexicographic preferences
Handle: RePEc:lan:wpaper:269238020