Can compulsory voting reduce information acquisition?

IF 1 3区 经济学 Q3 ECONOMICS Games and Economic Behavior Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI:10.1016/j.geb.2024.08.005
Linnéa Marie Rohde
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An election with full turnout is supposed to achieve an outcome that perfectly reflects the majority's preference. This result requires voters to be perfectly informed about their preferences and to vote accordingly. I show that incentivizing participation with an abstention fine does not necessarily incentivize information acquisition. While a small abstention fine always increases information acquisition compared to Voluntary Voting, a high abstention fine that achieves full turnout increases information acquisition only if voting costs are high. If voting costs are low, the opposite is true: Less individuals acquire information under Compulsory Voting with full turnout than under Voluntary Voting.

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强制投票能否减少信息获取?
投票率达到满额的选举,其结果理应完全反映大多数人的偏好。这一结果要求选民完全了解自己的偏好,并据此投票。我的研究表明,用弃权罚款激励参与并不一定能激励信息获取。与自愿投票相比,小额弃权罚款总能增加信息获取,但只有在投票成本较高的情况下,实现全员投票的高额弃权罚款才能增加信息获取。如果投票成本低,情况则相反:与自愿投票相比,在投票率满员的强制投票下,获取信息的人数更少。
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期刊介绍: Games and Economic Behavior facilitates cross-fertilization between theories and applications of game theoretic reasoning. It consistently attracts the best quality and most creative papers in interdisciplinary studies within the social, biological, and mathematical sciences. Most readers recognize it as the leading journal in game theory. Research Areas Include: • Game theory • Economics • Political science • Biology • Computer science • Mathematics • Psychology
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