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| Author: | Borgers, T. |
| Title: | Is Internal voting a good Thing? |
| Journal: | Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics
2000 : DEC, VOL. 156:4, p. 531-547 |
| Index terms: | INTERNET VOTING COSTS |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Allowing voters to vote on the internet, reduces the costs of voting. This paper shows that, on occasion, such a cost reduction may make all citizens worse off. The author presents a simple graphical method for analyzing equilibria of voting games with costly participation. The author then applies the method to find the welfare effects of a reduction in voting costs. Such a reduction is sometimes harmful because the resulting increase in participation rates reduces the influence of voters with low voting costs. Ex ante, when citizens do not yet know their voting costs, the negative effect may outweigh the positive effects. |
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