Does fortune favour the vague in election campaigns?

Kartik, N., Van Weelden, R. & Wolton, S.ORCID logo (2017). Does fortune favour the vague in election campaigns?
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Navin Kartik, Richard Van Weelden, and Stephane Wolton argue that vagueness on the campaign trail can lead to better governance as it gives the election winner flexibility to adapt policy to changing circumstances. However, electorally advantaged candidates are almost always more ambiguous than their opponents and over-ambiguous from the voters’ perspective.
Item Type Online resource
Copyright holders © 2017 The Author(s)
Departments LSE > Academic Departments > Government
Date Deposited 15 Jun 2017
URI https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/81404

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