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The Logic of Electoral Preference: Response to Saraydar and Hudelson

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  • Brennan, Geoffrey
  • Lomasky, Loren E.

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How may we best understand the motivational structure that stands behind individuals' acts of voting? In “The Impartial Spectator Goes to Washington†we suggested that expressive concerns swamp narrowly consequential motivations, in contradistinction to normal market transactions in which the priority is reversed. A striking consequence of this fact is that individuals will be led to vote for outcomes that they would reject were they in a position to act decisively. In this regard we found the moral psychology Adam Smith develops in The Theory of Moral Sentiments (TMS) (and, to a lesser extent, in The Wealth of Nations) remarkably fecund in suggesting alternatives to what we call the standard theory of electoral behavior.

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  • Brennan, Geoffrey & Lomasky, Loren E., 1987. "The Logic of Electoral Preference: Response to Saraydar and Hudelson," Economics and Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, vol. 3(1), pages 131-138, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:ecnphi:v:3:y:1987:i:01:p:131-138_00
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    1. Gebhard Kirchgässner & Tobias Schulz, 2005. "Expected Closeness or Mobilisation: Why Do Voters Go to the Polls? Empirical Results for Switzerland, 1981 – 1999," CESifo Working Paper Series 1387, CESifo.

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