Monetary Policy Committees differ in the way the interest rate proposal is prepared and presented in the policy meeting …. In this paper we show analytically how different arrangements could affect the voting behaviour of individual MPC members …

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 …

receive utility from the act of voting. However, this leaves open the question of whether or not there is a significant margin … consideration of the likelihood that they will be pivotal. Among the remainder, the probability of voting is related to variables …

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 a ecting 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 …

model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of poor voters, and cause parties …, income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters than for less informed voters. Further, when …

voting shares. The regression analyses show that a larger proportion of White Americans leads to an increasing share of votes …