Targeted campaign competition, loyal voters, and supermajorities

DOI10.1016/J.JMATECO.2017.04.002MaRDI QIDQ2399677zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pierre C. Boyer, Kai A. Konrad, Brian Roberson

Publication date 24 August 2017

Published in Journal of Mathematical Economics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://www.chapman.edu/research-and-institutions/economic-science-institute/_files/WorkingPapers/boyer-konrad-roberson-2017.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

campaign competitioncontinuous general lotto gameflexible budgetsloyal voterssupermajoritiesvote buying

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

2-person games (91A05) Voting theory (91B12) Auctions, bargaining, bidding and selling, and other market models (91B26)

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