Disputing Standard Economic Voter Theory: Post on Devil Dems Blog

Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt proposed in 2005 that there might be four rational reasons why Americans vote:

1)      They are behaving “rationally” under incomplete or false information that their vote might “matter” in the sense of influencing the electoral outcome.

2)      They vote because it would be fun, even if very low probability, if their vote did “matter” in the sense of influencing the electoral outcome (this is compared to entering a lottery).  This assumes that there is a binary … [Read More]