Academic Journal
The Voters ’ Curses; Why We Need Goldilocks Voters∗
| العنوان: | The Voters ’ Curses; Why We Need Goldilocks Voters∗ |
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| المؤلفون: | Carlo Prato, Stephane Wolton, Will Howell, Navin Kartik, Pablo Montagnes, Roger Myerson, Larry Samuelson, Francesco Squitani |
| المساهمون: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| المصدر: | http://aragones.iae-csic.org/prato.pdf. |
| سنة النشر: | 2014 |
| المجموعة: | CiteSeerX |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Political Apathy, Political Engagement, Elections, Campaigns, Policy Change, Institutional Design, Political Information |
| الوصف: | Scholars have long deplored voters ’ lack of interest in politics and argued greater political engagement would improve democratic responsiveness. We present a theory of elections built upon a formal model where successful communication of political messages during campaigns requires efforts by politicians and a representative voter. The voter’s interest in politics affects the effectiveness of the electoral process as screening and disciplining device. The electoral process performs poorly and the voter’s level of political activity is low when the voter cares little about politics–this is the curse of the apathetic voter–, or cares a lot about politics–this is the curse of the engaged voter. Consequently, an engaged voter is not always an active voter and fostering political engagement (e.g., by lowering the cost of political information or facilitating policy changes) might have negative consequences on voter attention to politics and welfare. JEL Classification: D72, D78, D83. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | text |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.684.5996; http://aragones.iae-csic.org/prato.pdf |
| الاتاحة: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.684.5996 http://aragones.iae-csic.org/prato.pdf |
| Rights: | Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.C1FB38D1 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| الوصف غير متاح. |