Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/82010 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
EPRU Working Paper Series No. 2003-03
Publisher: 
University of Copenhagen, Economic Policy Research Unit (EPRU), Copenhagen
Abstract: 
The paper investigates strategic campaigning in a model of redistributive politics in a society with many groups and two parties. Campaigns are informative, and parties can target campaigns to different groups. Voters are uncertain about whether parties favor special groups. The parties will seek to target campaigns at groups where most votes are gained by informing about policies. In equilibrium campaigning will be most intensive in groups where the uncertainty is largest and where voters are most mobile. These groups will therefore be very well informed about policy and will accordingly be favored by the parties' policies.
Subjects: 
political economy
redistribution
information
JEL: 
D72
D82
H40
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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