Politics must tackle multiple issues at once. In a first-best world, political competition constrains parties to prioritize issues according to the voters’ true concerns. In the real world, the opposite also happens: parties manipulate voter priorities by emphasizing issues selectively during the political campaign. This phenomenon, known as priming, should allow parties to pay less attention t...

background advocacy coalitions play an increasingly prominent role within the global health landscape, linking actors and institutions to attract political attention and resources. this paper examines how coalitions negotiate among themselves and exercise hidden forms of power to produce policy on the basis of their beliefs and strategic interests.   methods this paper examines the beliefs...

Abstract We propose a two party electoral competition model to analyze the effects of an exogenous shock over relative issue salience on strategic policy choices parties. find that both parties strategically shift their from ideal points towards point median voter newly salient issue. The polarization distribution voters preferences produces disadvantage for one parties, which is forced impleme...