Compulsory voting, habit formation, and political participation
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Keywords
Habit Formation; Compulsory Voting; Turnout; Political Participation; Social Norms;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
- P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2018-08-20 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-POL-2018-08-20 (Positive Political Economics)
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