The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or
rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases …

For voters withsocial'preferences, the expected utility of voting is approximately independent
of the size of the electorate, suggesting that rational voter turnouts can be substantial even in …

Scholars have recently reworked the traditional calculus of voting model by adding a term for
benefits to others. Although the probability that a single vote affects the outcome of an …

Perhaps the strongest empirical finding in political science is 'Gamson's Law': the near‐
perfect relationship that exists in parliamentary systems between a coalition party's seat …

Two attributes $ A $ and $ B $ are said to interact when it helps to observe the attribute
values of both attributes together. This is an example of a $2 $-way interaction. In general, a …

We argue that individuals use responsibility attribution heuristics that apply to collective
decisions made, for example, by families, teams within firms, boards in international …

One of the motivations for voting is that one vote can make a difference. In a presidential
election, the probability that your vote is decisive is equal to the probability that your state is …

In an election, voting power-the probability that a single vote is decisive-is affected by the
rule for aggregating votes into a single outcome. Voting power is important for studying …

Several methodological difficulties emerge from the empirical evaluation of the impact of
closeness on turnout. The most critical resides in the use of the actual electoral results to …

How is electoral support for incumbent candidates shaped by natural disasters? Do voters in
districts newly recovering from a national disaster punish or reward incumbents for their …