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dc.contributor.authorSchwager, Roberten
dc.contributor.authorAytimur, R. Emreen
dc.contributor.authorBoukouras, Aristotelisen
dc.date.accessioned2012-09-04T08:15:54Z-
dc.date.available2012-09-04T08:15:54Z-
dc.date.issued2012-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/62075-
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, citizens vote in order to influence the election outcome and in order to signal their unobserved characteristics to others. The model is one of rational voting and generates the following predictions: (i) The paradox of not voting does not arise, because the benefit of voting does not vanish with population size. (ii) Turnout in elections is positively related to the importance of social interactions. (iii) Voting may exhibit bandwagon effects and small changes in the electoral incentives may generate large changes in turnout due to signaling effects. (iv) Signaling incentives increase the sensitivity of turnout to voting incentives in communities with low opportunity cost of social interaction, while the opposite is true for communities with high cost of social interaction. Therefore, the model predicts that smaller communities have more volatile turnout than larger communities.en
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dc.publisherZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft |xKiel und Hamburgen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aBeiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2012: Neue Wege und Herausforderungen für den Arbeitsmarkt des 21. Jahrhunderts - Session: Voting |xA09-V1en
dc.subject.jelD72en
dc.subject.jelC72en
dc.subject.jelD80en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.titleVoting as a Signaling Device-
dc.typeConference Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn731578996en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:zbw:vfsc12:62075en

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