Costly Voting
American Economic Review
vol. 94,
no. 1, March 2004
(pp. 57-66)
Abstract
What are good voting rules if voting is costly? We analyze this question for the case that an electorate chooses among two alternatives. In a symmetric private value model of voting we show that majority voting with voluntary participation Paretodominates majority voting with compulsory participation as well as random decision-making.Citation
Borgers, Tilman. 2004. "Costly Voting." American Economic Review, 94 (1): 57-66. DOI: 10.1257/000282804322970706JEL Classification
- D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior