B Geys - Political Studies Review, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
The paradox between an individual's decisions to head to the polls and the absence of strictly rational arguments for this action has intrigued–and troubled–many scholars. The …
Why do people vote? We design a field experiment to estimate a model of voting “because others will ask”. The expectation of being asked motivates turnout if individuals derive pride …
This paper studies, theoretically and empirically, the role of overconfidence in political behavior. Our model of overconfidence in beliefs predicts that overconfidence leads to …
A Madestam, D Shoag, S Veuger… - … Quarterly Journal of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Can protests cause political change, or are they merely symptoms of underlying shifts in policy preferences? We address this question by studying the Tea Party movement in the …
AS Gerber, T Rogers - The Journal of Politics, 2009 - journals.uchicago.edu
The fact that many citizens fail to vote is often cited to motivate others to vote. Psychological research on descriptive social norms suggests that emphasizing the opposite—that many do …
In the run-up to elections in a large Indian city, residents in a random sample of slums received newspapers containing report cards on politicians. The report card for a jurisdiction …
M Lodge, CS Taber - Political Psychology, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
We report the results of three experimental tests of the “hot cognition” hypothesis, which posits that all sociopolitical concepts that have been evaluated in the past are affectively …
JH Fowler, CD Kam - The Journal of politics, 2007 - journals.uchicago.edu
Scholars have recently extended the traditional calculus of participation model by adding a term for benefits to others. We advance this work by distinguishing theoretically a concern for …
We analyze a model of participation in elections in which voting is costly and no vote is pivotal. Ethical agents are motivated to participate when they determine that agents of their …