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Describing Society Through Approval Data

In: Handbook on Approval Voting

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  • Jean-François Laslier

    (École Polytechnique)

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An election is not only a mean to choose among options, candidates or representatives, but it also serves as a privileged occasion for voters to express publicly their opinions and to know the opinions of the others. These two goals — choice and expression — may be contradictory but they co-exist in the minds of the voters. The usual rationale for voting is to elect someone or to have a decision taken, that is collective choice, but voters also sometime declare that their rationale for voting is to “express themselves” or to “contribute to the political debate”. The choice and expression rationales also co-exist in practice since, for instance, on top of the identity of the elected candidate, the number of votes gathered by a candidate matters for deciding of her political fate, even if she is not elected.

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  • Jean-François Laslier, 2010. "Describing Society Through Approval Data," Studies in Choice and Welfare, in: Jean-François Laslier & M. Remzi Sanver (ed.), Handbook on Approval Voting, chapter 0, pages 455-468, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:stcchp:978-3-642-02839-7_19
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02839-7_19
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