Ecological rationality and democratic ignorance: reconciling rational and radical accounts of voter behavior

2026/01/21 by Aylon Manor · 1 voice
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #Electoral Systems and Political Participation #Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies #Game Theory and Voting Systems

paper · doi:10.1007/s11127-025-01370-6

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Citations

• Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?
• A BEHAVIORAL MODEL OF RATIONAL CHOICE
• Causation

Discussions

• Ignorance helps avoid the psychological dissonance that awareness of vote inefficacy would create. If voters became consciously aware that their votes don’t matter, they would face both psychological [bsky, 2 points, 0 comments]