… In equilibrium, we find an "anti-pandering" effect: the incumbent has an additional incentive
to choose a policy that does not align with public consensus. The intuition is rather simple. …

… The anti-pandering incentive extends directly to a family of statistical structures known as
the Exponential family with conjugate priors, which includes a variety of familiar distributions (…

… Finally, while we have focused exclusively here on electoral competition, we believe the
logic underlying anti-pandering and the welfare bounds ought to be relevant more broadly. For …

… anti-pandering: … anti-pandering: each candidate's platform after observing signals ±1 is
greater in absolute value than their private expectations. The ultimate reason for anti-pandering …

… California's anti-pandering law was enacted in 1911 to control the prostitution industry.Applying
the law to the creators of "adult" materials represents an attempt to extend the law to …

… Following contract theory terminology we refer to this type of … We further explore the theory
model's incentive mechanisms … It is also more pronounced in election years, when the theory …

… We show that electoral concerns may lead to anti$pandering. Politicians tend to put issues
on their political agenda when voters are relatively pessimistic about a major reform, and …

… Intentional overreactions derive from the desire of political executives to pander to voters’
opinions or signal extremity by overreacting to voters’ opinions (ie anti-pandering) in domains …

… Political Viability If we add up the juvenile, nuisance, and anti-pandering policy initiatives
of the Court, it is fairly easy to see that the evolving policies are largely explainable in terms of …

… The primary theoretical contribution of the paper is the bilateral cheap talk model itself,
which is the focus of the baseline model. It is the first multisender cheap-talk model in which a …