interest in those parameters, voting patterns suggest significant influence of cooperative orientation, political attitudes …

We use laboratory experiments to test for one of the foundations of the rational voter paradigm - that voters respond … insights. First, voting propensity increases systematically with subjects' predictions of their preferred alternative …

informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of …. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters …

Cognitive dissonance theory predicts that the act of voting makes people more positive toward the party or candidate … turnout provided by the voting age restriction. I improve on previous studies by investigating political attitudes, measured … just before elections, when they are highly predictive of voting. In contrast to earlier studies I find no effect of voting …

The rational-voter model is often criticized on the grounds that two of its central predictions (the paradox of voting … main theoretical predictions: sincere voting is a predominant strategy under aggregate uncertainty, whereas without …

pro-sociality. However, the degree to which differential voting by men and women is related to these gaps in more basic … and that this difference persists with experience and in environments with varying degrees of risk. This gender voting gap …

as well as voting decisions, this paper tests if voters typically support parties in which the politicians' preferences …