Working paper

Homo moralis goes to the voting booth: a new theory of voter turnout

Ingela Alger, and Jean-François Laslier

Abstract

Why do voters incur costs to participate in large elections? This paper proposes an exploratory analysis of the implications of evolutionary Kantian morality for this classical problem in the economic theory of voting: the costly participation problem.

Keywords

voter turnout; voting, ethical voter; homo moralis; Kantian morality;

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Published in

IAST working paper, n. 21-122, February 2021