IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/kap/pubcho/v78y1994i3-4p351-58.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Smoke Screen: A Theoretical Framework

Author

Listed:
  • Delles, Harris
  • Koubi, Vally

Abstract

The authors develop a theory of smoke screening (ambiguity) as a means of maximizing political support when the voters' evaluation of a candidate depends on the quality of information they receive, on their ability to obtain and process relevant information, and finally on the candidate's popularity (goodness of reputation). They show that the more favorable a candidate's standing relative to his competence, the greater the incentive to milk good reputation by generating smoke screens; and that the more 'savvy' (educated, knowledgeable, involved, etc.) the public, the lower the amount of smoke screening activities undertaken. Copyright 1994 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

Suggested Citation

  • Delles, Harris & Koubi, Vally, 1994. "Smoke Screen: A Theoretical Framework," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 78(3-4), pages 351-358, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:pubcho:v:78:y:1994:i:3-4:p:351-58
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Yasushi Asako, 2019. "Strategic Ambiguity with Probabilistic Voting," Journal of Theoretical Politics, , vol. 31(4), pages 626-641, October.
    2. Nichole Szembrot, 2017. "Are voters cursed when politicians conceal policy preferences?," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 173(1), pages 25-41, October.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:kap:pubcho:v:78:y:1994:i:3-4:p:351-58. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.