The Halo Effect: A Formal Model of Strategic Opposition Research

• In Event: Opposition, Experimentation, and Policy Reforms

Brief Overview

We develop a model of endogenous opposition research. We find conditions under which challengers may actually prefer to be of lower quality, where a low quality challenger may want to reveal, and where a high quality challenger may want to obfuscate.

Authors

• Alejandro Medina, Texas A & M University-College Station

• Benjamin G. Ogden, Texas A & M University-College Station