Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/30577 
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Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 2834
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We present a model of elections in which interest group donations allow candidates to shift policy positions. We show that if donations were prohibited, then a unique equilibrium regarding the platform choices of candidates would exist. Our game with financing of political campaigns exhibits two equilibria, depending on whether a majority of interest groups runs to support the leftist or rightist candidate. The equilibria generate a variety of new features of campaign games and may help identify the objective functions of candidates empirically.
Subjects: 
elections
campaign contributions
interest groups
JEL: 
C72
D72
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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