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来源类型 | Discussion paper |
规范类型 | 论文 |
来源ID | DP17203 |
DP17203 Identity-Based Elections | |
Helios Herrera; Ravideep Sethi | |
发表日期 | 2022-04-09 |
出版年 | 2022 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | We study how media choice driven by political identity can influence electoral results. Citizens gather information from mainstream news but also from possibly partisan media sources which filter news in particular predetermined ways. We assume that citizens process all information they receive correctly but choose their own media sources in a behavioral self-serving way to try to preserve their political faith/identity. That is, they attempt to rationally counteract mainstream news that they might view as unfavorable. In the baseline setup, we assume that citizens on either side of the political spectrum are exposed to different extents to mainstream news, as in the U.S. case. This endogenous media choice generates an electoral advantage for the less exposed side, which can turn into a sure electoral victory even for the wrong candidate in a democracy. Results are robust to forms of media distrust and are stronger if citizens have biased priors. In contrast, we show that, in illiberal democracies, where the government controls the media, official media propaganda works only if citizens are unaware of its bias, but otherwise backfires entirely without censorship of other media. |
主题 | Political Economy |
关键词 | Information design Belief-based utility Information aggregation |
URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp17203 |
来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/546198 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Helios Herrera,Ravideep Sethi. DP17203 Identity-Based Elections. 2022. |
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