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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.
