| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w14302
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 14302
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| Attitude-Dependent Altruism, Turnout and Voting |
| Julio J. Rotemberg
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| 发表日期 | 2008-09-05
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| 出版年 | 2008
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | This paper presents a goal-oriented model of political participation based on two psychological assumptions. The first is that people are more altruistic towards individuals that agree with them and the second is that people's well-being rises when other people share their personal opinions. The act of voting is then a source of vicarious utility because it raises the well-being of individuals that agree with the voter. Substantial equilibrium turnout emerges with nontrivial voting costs and modest altruism. The model can explain higher turnout in close elections as well as votes for third-party candidates with no prospect of victory. For certain parameters, these third party candidates lose votes to more popular candidates, a phenomenon often called strategic voting. For other parameters, the model predicts "vote-stealing" where the addition of a third candidate robs a viable major candidate of electoral support. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics
; Welfare and Collective Choice
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w14302
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/571975
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Julio J. Rotemberg. Attitude-Dependent Altruism, Turnout and Voting. 2008.
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