Expressive Voting  

Oleh:

Schuessler, Alexander A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Rationality and Society vol. 12 no. 1 (Feb. 2000), page 87–119.
Topik: collective action; consumption benefit; expressive rationality; models; tipping; voting behavior
Fulltext: 87RS121.pdf (200.21KB)

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For more than 40 years, rational choice theorists have noted that some voters may be expressively motivated. Their approaches generally have lacked a theoretical foundation with which such expressive motivation could be justified, and formalization typically has not gone beyond adding a non-instrumental utility term in a model of instrumental returns. I draw on social theory and anthropology to provide a microfoundation for expressive voting and propose an ‘economy’ of expressive incentives, seeking out equilibrium conditions. This approach generates predictions about voter choice and turnout that are consistent with empirical evidence of electoral behavior.

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