Costly voting when both information and preferences differ: Is turnout too high or too low?

DOI10.1007/S00355-008-0344-6MaRDI QIDQ734044zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sayantan Ghosal, Ben Lockwood

Publication date 19 October 2009

Published in Social Choice and Welfare (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-008-0344-6

zbMATH Keywords

voluntary votingcompulsory votingheterogeneous informationPareto-rankingprivate preference

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Individual preferences (91B08) Voting theory (91B12) Economics of information (91B44)

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