Would rational voters acquire costly information?

2005/04/22 by César Martinelli · 1 voice · 6 citations
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Fiscal Policies and Political Economy #Game Theory and Voting Systems #Politics, Economics, and Education Policy

paper · doi:10.1016/j.jet.2005.02.005

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• Fact-Finding in Social Networks
• The curse of uninformed voting: An experimental study
• Voter Motivation and the Quality of Democratic Choice
• Ignorance and bias in collective decisions
• Rational ignorance and voting behavior
• Rational ignorance [wikipedia]

Discussions

• On the question you raise, an excellent paper to check out is by Cesar Martinelli, who studies "how much" one should learn: doi.org/10.1016/j.je... [bsky, 3 points, 2 comments]