The paradox of information and voter turnout
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Keywords
Voting paradox; Elections; Information; Turnout; Abstention; Costly voting; Swing voter’s curse; D72; D82;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
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