Rational ignorance and voting behavior
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Rational ignorance and voting behavior
We model a two-alternative election in which voters may acquire information about which is the best alternative for all voters. Voters differ in their cost of acquiring information. We show that as the number of voters increases, the fraction of voters who acquire information declines to zero. However, if the support of the cost distribution is not bounded away from zero, there is an equilibriu...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Game Theory
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0020-7276,1432-1270
DOI: 10.1007/s00182-006-0051-4