Are Voters Rationally Ignorant? An Empirical Study for Portuguese Local Elections.
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Summary: | 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 developed by (Rogoff and Sibert Rev Econ Stud LV:116, (1988) and by considering that better informed voters reward political candidates who show better performances. The levels of performance are established through the construction of an empirical frontier using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) methodology. According to our results, based on the 1997 Portuguese local elections, even though swing voters do not necessarily behave as rationally ignorant voters, a large majority of voters are rationally ignorant. |
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Are Voters Rationally Ignorant? An Empirical Study for Portuguese Local Elections.Ciências Sociais, Ciências sociaisSocial sciences, Social sciencesThe 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 developed by (Rogoff and Sibert Rev Econ Stud LV:116, (1988) and by considering that better informed voters reward political candidates who show better performances. The levels of performance are established through the construction of an empirical frontier using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) methodology. According to our results, based on the 1997 Portuguese local elections, even though swing voters do not necessarily behave as rationally ignorant voters, a large majority of voters are rationally ignorant.20062006-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/10216/53114eng1617-982X10.1007/s10258-006-0002-9Ester SilvaJosé Costainfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-29T13:28:26Zoai:repositorio-aberto.up.pt:10216/53114Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T23:41:16.477736Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Are Voters Rationally Ignorant? An Empirical Study for Portuguese Local Elections. |
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Are Voters Rationally Ignorant? An Empirical Study for Portuguese Local Elections. Ester Silva Ciências Sociais, Ciências sociais Social sciences, Social sciences |
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Are Voters Rationally Ignorant? An Empirical Study for Portuguese Local Elections. |
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Are Voters Rationally Ignorant? An Empirical Study for Portuguese Local Elections. |
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Are Voters Rationally Ignorant? An Empirical Study for Portuguese Local Elections. |
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Are Voters Rationally Ignorant? An Empirical Study for Portuguese Local Elections. |
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Ester Silva |
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Ester Silva José Costa |
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José Costa |
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Ester Silva José Costa |
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Ciências Sociais, Ciências sociais Social sciences, Social sciences |
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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 developed by (Rogoff and Sibert Rev Econ Stud LV:116, (1988) and by considering that better informed voters reward political candidates who show better performances. The levels of performance are established through the construction of an empirical frontier using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) methodology. According to our results, based on the 1997 Portuguese local elections, even though swing voters do not necessarily behave as rationally ignorant voters, a large majority of voters are rationally ignorant. |
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