Monday 7 January 2013

Why do we vote?

For a host of reasons except to decide the winner!


The instrumental voting hypothesis holds that voters value the right to vote only as a means to an end,  as voting allows each voter to affect his own utility through his vote. By contrast, the  noninstrumental voting hypothesis posits that voters attach a value to the right to vote itself, so they value this right beyond purely instrumental reasons.

Tradition?

Social Norms? Good equilibrium?


Academics

What’s a vote worth?


Even before the turmoil of Hurricane Sandy, many Americans were considering not bothering to register a vote for their next president. By looking at the costs and benefits of voting, this column argues that not voting may actually be the rational choice.
http://www.voxeu.org/article/what-s-vote-worth

Blogposts:

THE RATIONALITY OF VOTING


http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2012/11/the-rationality-of-voting.html

Why vote? http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/date/2012/11

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