An Estimate of Risk Aversion in the U.S. Electorate
Recent work in political science has taken up the question of issue voting under conditions of uncertainty – situations in which voters have imperfect information about the policy positions of candidates. We move beyond the assumption of a particular spatial utility function and develop a model to estimate voters' preferences for risk. Contrary to the maintained hypothesis in the literature, voters do not appear to have the strongly risk averse preferences implied by quadratic preferences.
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2007
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Authors: | Berinsky, Adam J. ; Lewis, Jeffrey B. |
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Quarterly Journal of Political Science. - now publishers. - Vol. 2.2007, 2, p. 139-154
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