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Article: PERSPECTIVE : A to Z of politics: Voting paradox means rational choice is not to vote at all.(Comment)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- April 28, 2005
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P is for what PUBLIC CHOICE THEORISTS call the PARADOX OF VOTING, which questions not why so few of us vote, but why so many. The cost of voting, at least in time, is not negligible, but the chance of our individual vote decisively influencing the result is. A PERFECTLY RATIONALVOTER, therefore, would be a serial non-voter.
That was presumably the thinking - if any - behind the ...
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