Voluntary voting: Costs and benefits
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Costly voting; Condorcet Jury Theorem; Information aggregation;All these keywords.
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- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
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