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Paradox of Voting
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Paradox of Voting
The idea that because the physical process of voting is inconvenient and each vote usually matters very little, the rational person should not vote. Yet large proportions of populations vote. The paradox occurs if one studies voters and other political actors in the same way as one would study rational economic actors.
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Why so many voters go to the polls is called "the voting paradox.
The Public Choice revolution: Public Choice has demystified and ... by Lemieux, Pierre / Regulation
Urken recently reviewed all available primary sources and determined, first, that while Jefferson and Madison owned copies of the Essai, it is unlikely that either of them actually read the fairly short section that described the voting paradox;(11) and, second, that no available evidence supports the claim that an understanding of the voting paradox influenced the drafting of the United States Constitution.
The misguided renaissance of social choice by Stearns, Maxwell L. / Yale Law Journal
I found some confusion in defining the Condorcet score and explaining the Voting Paradox on pages 39-40.
Equity: In Theory and Practice by Kuenne, Robert E. / Southern Economic Journal
 
 
 
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