TY - JOUR
T1 - Voting as Investment vs. Voting as Consumption
T2 - New Evidence
AU - GUTTMAN, JOEL M.
AU - HILGER, NAFTALI
AU - SHACHMUROVE, YOCHANAN
PY - 1994/5
Y1 - 1994/5
N2 - The 'paradox of voting'is a long-discussed issue in the public choice literature. If voting is a form of investment in electoral outcomes, why do people vote, given their infinitesimal effect on the electoral outcome? Note that this question assumes that voting is a form of investment. There is an alternative view that voting is a form of consumption (a kind of entertainment, or a means of satisfying the voter's desire to participatc in the democratic process). On this view, voting is no more paradoxical than many other forms of
AB - The 'paradox of voting'is a long-discussed issue in the public choice literature. If voting is a form of investment in electoral outcomes, why do people vote, given their infinitesimal effect on the electoral outcome? Note that this question assumes that voting is a form of investment. There is an alternative view that voting is a form of consumption (a kind of entertainment, or a means of satisfying the voter's desire to participatc in the democratic process). On this view, voting is no more paradoxical than many other forms of
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84980204688
U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-6435.1994.tb02255.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-6435.1994.tb02255.x
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SN - 0023-5962
VL - 47
SP - 197
EP - 207
JO - Kyklos
JF - Kyklos
IS - 2
ER -