A new approach to understanding voter choice with important implications. There is a substantial class of voters who would like to do "good" but ignore important consequences of their attempts to do so--naIve altruists. The book both shows why such a class exists and tests the implications of that group's behavior in a setting where other voters are self-interested, others are traditionalists, and imitation plays a big role in voter choice. The book also looks at the policy implications of such behavior accepting as desirable, but not fully achievable, the democratic ideal in which...
A new approach to understanding voter choice with important implications. There is a substantial class of voters who would like to do "good" but ig...
