Issue convergence or issue divergence in a political campaign?

Amorós, Pablo; Puy, M. Socorro

doi:10.1007/s11127-011-9865-0

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“…Simon (2002) formalized this idea. A similar result was established by Riker (1996) and subsequent authors like Amorós and Puy (2013). The common predictions of these models is an extreme form of divergence in communication strategies: A candidate never addresses an issue in which the opponent has an advantage and if nobody has an advantage, the issue remains untouched.…”

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“…6 }, such that candidate 1 is weakly better than his opponent in all issues, we get σ 1 = − 1 6 , σ 2 = 0, and σ 3 = This definition of comparative advantage is therefore different from the one in Amorós and Puy (2013) and Aragonès, Castanheira, and Giani (2014), which only takes into account information about relative competence levels. Pre-campaigning comparative advantages are defined in a similar way and I useσ i instead of σ i .…”

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“…This issue priming effect has been studied extensively and lies at the heart of most campaigning models, e.g. Amorós and Puy (2013) and Aragonès, Castanheira, and Giani (2014). 11 With ω i v being a voter's importance belief of issue i, priming leads to a reassessment of issues' relative importance.…”

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“…Iyengar and Kinder (1987), Druckman, Jacobs, and Ostermeier (2004), Amorós andPuy (2013), or Aragonès, Castanheira, andGiani (2014).…”

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“…Shubik and Weber 7 In the paper by Amorós and Puy (2013) the result that convergence is not possible only holds when the focus is on pure strategy equilibria. If those fail to exist, partial convergence in mixed strategies may happen.…”

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A Theory of Communication in Political Campaigns

Denter

2013

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In this paper I develop a formal theory of campaign communications. Voters have beliefs about the quality of candidates in the different policy issues and about the issues' relative importance. Candidates spend time or money (TV ads, public speeches, etc.) in an effort to influence voters' decisions at the ballot. Influence has two simultaneous effects: (i) it increases the quality of the policy in the issue as perceived by the voters through policy/competence advertising and (ii) it makes the issue more salient through issue priming, thereby increasing the issue's perceived importance. A strategy is an allocation of influence activities to the different issues or topics. I show conditions under which candidates' strategies converge or diverge, which issues -if any -will dominate the campaign, and under what conditions candidates are forced to focus on issues in which they are perceived to be weak. The results are often conflicting with previous theories of campaigning but are able to explain a set of anomalies.

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