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work_prahdpzj5neyvi4p4whspk745y	Pau Balart	Technological Change, Campaign Spending and Polarization	2018	37	.pdf	application/pdf	14884	2234	73	Keywords: electoral competition, campaign spending, impressionable voters, semiorder Given each party's electoral advertising, the effectiveness of the latter determines the fraction of impressionable voters that supports each the proposed platforms, with the fraction of ideological voters increasing in polarization. impressionable voters become ideological when polarization increases affects both campaign spending and polarization in a similar manner as a change in the effectiveness. and Bueno de Mesquita (2009), our model under symmetry admits a pure strategy equilibrium in the campaign stage setting and does not require that voters' ideologies are unique with advertising being: a) increasing in the campaign effectiveness η, b) decreasing in the marginal cost µ, and c) decreasing in the platforms' polarization y (recall the extremism equilibrium arises and due to all voters being ideological campaign spending is Polarization and campaign spending are also affected by the rate at which impressionable voters become ideological as polarization increases parametrized by ρ.	./cache/work_prahdpzj5neyvi4p4whspk745y.pdf	./txt/work_prahdpzj5neyvi4p4whspk745y.txt