Some Further Thoughts on Voting
In: Public choice, Band 104, Heft 1-2, S. 181-182
ISSN: 0048-5829
Tullock offers his most recent thoughts on why many individuals vote despite the very small probability that their individual votes will have any effect on the outcome of an election. It is argued that the real explanation, ignored by the majority of public choice scholars, is that the cost of voting for most individuals is really very low. In such circumstances, it is not necessary for the individual citizen to expend energy & time thinking about whether or not he should vote. T. Nagai