Testing Competing Theories of Voting

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Brief Overview

Downs’ (1957) showed that it was irrational to vote. Expressive benefits, civic duty and altruism have been proposed as a solution to this problem.
I perform non-nested (Vuong and Clarke) tests of the competing theories.

Author

• Richard Jankowski, SUNY at Fredonia