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 …

We develop a generalized approach to the treatment of household inequality aspects of social welfare in general … inequality results in trade theory that are focused strictly on functional rather than household inequality. As an application of … the theoretical framework, we then examine the direct impact of inequality on a government's objective function. We nd …

uence voting outcomes. We develop a probabilistic voting model in which voters do not have complete information about the …

the extreme persistence of the effect to the relative incidence of these age groups in the voting population, and explore …

ask if decision makers are blamed for being pivotal if they implement an unpopular outcome in a sequential voting process …. We conduct an experimental voting game in which decision makers vote about the allocation of money between themselves and … recipients without voting rights. We measure responsibility attributions for voting decisions by eliciting the monetary …

cultivation of genetically modified (GM) plants within Switzerland. The present study examines how individual voting decisions … regular voter survey undertaken after national-level voting decisions in Switzerland. Among the socioeconomic characteristics …