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- A Model Of Voting With Incomplete Information And Opinion Polls

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  • Ignacio Ortuño Ortín

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A one-dimensional model of spatial political competition with incomplete information is developed.It is assumed that voters care about the distribu-tion of votes among the two candidates. Votershave an incomplete infor-mation about the distribution of voters´ types. We provide conditions forwhich the publication of opinion polls may solve the informational problem voters face. The mainresult states that only when the distribution of voters is polarized we could expect that voters actas if they were fully informed.

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  • Ignacio Ortuño Ortín, 1999. "- A Model Of Voting With Incomplete Information And Opinion Polls," Working Papers. Serie AD 1999-25, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie).
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    • D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior

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