Mots-clés
Commerce Comportement électoral District Election Etats-Unis Géographie économique Information Polarisation Politique locale Secteur d'activité Stratification District Economic geography Economic sector Election Electoral behaviour Information Local policy Polarization Stratification Trade United States of America Comercio Comportamiento electoral Distrito Elección Estados Unidos Estratificación Geografía económica Información Polarización Política local Sector de actividadLocal politics and economic geography : information aggregation and polarization
Auteur(s) et Affiliation(s)
BERLIANT, M.
Dept. of Economics, Washington Univ., St. Louis, Etats-Unis
TABUCHI, T
Faculty of Economics, Univ., Tokyo, Japon
Description :
This article considers information aggregation in national and local elections when voters are mobile and might sort themselves into local districts. Using a standard model of private information for voters in elections in combination with a new economic geography model, agglomeration occurs for economic reasons, whereas voter stratification occurs due to political preferences. When trade is more costly, people tend to agglomerate for economic reasons, resulting in full information equivalence in the political sector. Under free trade, people sort themselves into districts, most of which are polarized, resulting in no full information equivalence in these districts.
Type de document :
Article de périodique
Source :
Journal of regional science, issn : 0022-4146, 2014, vol. 54, n°. 5, p. 806-827, nombre de pages : 22, Références bibliographiques : 1 p.
Date :
2014
Editeur :
Pays édition : Etats-Unis, Amherst, MA, Regional Science Research Institute
Langue :
Anglais
Anglais
Droits :
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