A Passion for Democracy
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Keywords
expressive voting; habitual voting; complementarities in voting; self-signaling; public information and the vote; status quo bias.; vote expressif; vote habituel; complémentarités au vote; self-signaling; information publique et vote; tendance au statu qo.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D03 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
- D71 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
- P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2011-09-05 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-HPE-2011-09-05 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
- NEP-POL-2011-09-05 (Positive Political Economics)
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