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Super Tuesday: campaign finance and the dynamics of sequential elections

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I develop a model of campaign finance in primary elections in which campaigns, which supply hard information about candidates’ electability, must be financed by strategic donors. I provide a rationale for Super Tuesday electoral calendars in which a block of voters vote simultaneously early in the election followed by other voters voting sequentially. For a range of campaign costs, such a calendar maximizes expected donations to nomination campaigns and, thus, the ex-ante probability of electing the best candidate over all possible electoral calendars. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

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  • Rainer Schwabe, 2015. "Super Tuesday: campaign finance and the dynamics of sequential elections," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 44(4), pages 927-951, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sochwe:v:44:y:2015:i:4:p:927-951
    DOI: 10.1007/s00355-014-0856-1
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