caa a22 4500 606167730 CHVBK 20210128100704.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11127-015-0283-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11127-015-0283-6 Negative campaigning in a probabilistic voting model [Elektronische Daten] [Jan Brueckner, Kangoh Lee] This paper extends the small existing theoretical literature on negative campaigning, building on work by Harrington and Hess (Games Econ Behav 17:209-229, 1996). While their analysis explores the determinants of negative campaign spending using a classic spatial voting model, this paper relies instead on a probabilistic voting model, extending the use of this popular model to a new setting. The main lesson of the analysis is that negative campaign spending is higher for the relatively more-centrist candidate. The more-extreme candidate in the electoral contest devotes, by contrast, comparatively more of her funds to positive campaign spending. This result, which at first appears unrelated to the main findings of Harrington and Hess (Games Econ Behav 17:209-229, 1996) and Chakrabarti (ScottishJ Polit Econ 54:136-149, 2007), actually can be viewed as aligning with their conclusions, although the underlying mechanics are very different. The paper also offers an empirical test of this prediction. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Negative campaigning nationallicence Candidate valence nationallicence Ideology nationallicence Extreme nationallicence Brueckner Jan Department of Economics, University of California, Irvine, 3151 Social Science Plaza, 92697, Irvine, CA, USA aut Lee Kangoh Department of Economics, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, 92182-4485, San Diego, CA, USA aut Public Choice Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 164/3-4(2015-09-01), 379-399 0048-5829 164:3-4<379 2015 164 11127 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-015-0283-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-015-0283-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brueckner Jan Department of Economics, University of California, Irvine, 3151 Social Science Plaza, 92697, Irvine, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lee Kangoh Department of Economics, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, 92182-4485, San Diego, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 164/3-4(2015-09-01), 379-399 0048-5829 164:3-4<379 2015 164 11127