Voter Information and Distributive Politics
研究信息对选民的影响，发现同质信息选民可能因信息减少而受益，异质信息下资源分配和福利受信息差异及沟通能力影响，有时信息少的选民反而更好。
Does more information benefit voters? I examine this question in a novel setting of distributive politics and electoral accountability. Homogeneously informed electorates can benefit from less information through improvements in the control or screening of politicians. For heterogeneously informed electorates, I show that the distribution of resources and voter welfare is affected by the nature of informational heterogeneity and by voters’ ability to communicate with each other, making less-informed voters better off than their more-informed counterparts in some cases.