Publication: A model of voting with incomplete information and opinion polls
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1999
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A one-dimensional model of spatial political competition with incomplete information is developed. It is assumed that voters care about the distribution of votes among the two candidates. Voters have an incomplete information about the distribution of voters’ types. We provide conditions for which the publication of opinion polls may solve the informational problem voters face. The main result states that only when the distribution of voters is polarized we could expect that voters act as if they were fully informed.
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Spatial competition, Incomplete Information, Opinion Polls