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Ingela Alger

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Homo Moralis goes to the voting booth: A new theory of voter participation

Joint with Jean-François Laslier

Venue: Îlot Bernard du Bois - Amphithéâtre
AMU - AMSE
5-9 boulevard Maurice Bourdet
13001 Marseille
Date(s): Monday, September 13 2021
11:30am to 12:45pm
Contact(s): Ewen Gallic: ewen.gallic[at]univ-amu.fr
Avner Seror: avner.seror[at]univ-amu.fr
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Abstract

Why do voters incur costs to participate in large elections? This paper proposes an exploratory analysis of the implications of evolutionary Kantian morality for this classical problem in the economic theory of voting: the costly participation problem.