Before revision: We study a model of electoral accountability and selection (EAS) in which voters with heterogeneous horizontal preferences pay limited attention to the incumbent's performance using personalized news aggregators . Extreme voters' aggregators exhibit an own-party bias, which hampers their abilities to discern good and bad performances.
After revision: We study a model of electoral accountability and selection (EAS) in which voters with heterogeneous horizontal preferences pay limited attention to the incumbent's performance using personalized news aggregators . Extreme voters' signals exhibit an own-party bias, which hampers their abilities to discern good and bad performances.