Are Voters Rationally Ignorant? An Empirical Study for Portuguese Local Elections.
The application of the rational choice postulate to a political context invariably leads to the conclusion that most voters are ill informed when making the decision on whom to vote for. In this paper, the authors conduct an empirical evaluation of the rational ignorance theory, based on the model d...
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| Language: | eng |
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2006
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10216/53114 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:repositorio-aberto.up.pt:10216/53114 |