Inverse campaigning

Konrad, Kai A. (April 2003): Inverse campaigning. CESifo Working Papers, 905

Abstract

It can be advantageous for an office motivated party A to spend effort to make it public that a group of voters will lose from party A’s policy proposal. Such effort is called inverse campaigning. The inverse campaigning equilibria are described for the case where the two parties can simultaneously reveal information publicly to uninformed voters. Inverse campaigning dissipates the parties' rents and causes some inefficiency in expectation. Inverse campaigning also influences policy design. Successful policy proposals hurt small groups of voters who lose much and do not benefit small groups of voters who win much.

• Dokumententyp: Paper
• Keywords: inverse campaigning; information; voting; policy design
• Fakultät: Volkswirtschaft > Lehrstühle > MPI für Steuerrecht und Öffentliche Finanzen
• Themengebiete: 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 330 Wirtschaft
• JEL Classification: D72, D74, E61
• ISSN: 0013-0133
• Ort: München
• Sprache: Englisch