A game - Theoretic view of voting

Journal of Social Issues

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 467-485

  Krueger, Joachim I ^a   Acevedo, Melissa ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; ELECTION; GAME THEORY; PRISONER DILEMMA; PUBLIC GOODS; THEORETICAL STUDY; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

EID: 49049087924     PISSN: 00224537     EISSN: 15404560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2008.00573.x     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Acevedo, M., & Krueger, J. I. (2004). Two egocentric sources of the decision to vote: The voter's illusion and the belief in personal relevance. Political Psychology, 25, 115-134.
2. Acevedo, M., & Krueger, J. I. (2005). Evidential reasoning in the prisoner's dilemma game. American Journal of Psychology, 118, 431-457.
3. Aldrich, J. H. (1993). Rational choice and turnout. American Journal of Political Science, 37, 246-278.
4. Bargh, J. A., & Ferguson, M. J. (2000). Beyond behaviorism: On the automaticity of higher mental processes. Psychological Bulletin, 126, 925-945.
5. Bendor, J., Diermeier, D., & Ting, M. (2003). A behavioral model of turnout. American Political Science Review, 97, 261-280.
6. Blais, A., & Young, R. (1999). Why do people vote? An experiment in rationality. Public Choice, 99, 19-55.
7. Blais, A., Young, R., Fleury, C., & Lapp, M. (1995). Do people vote on the basis of minmax regret? Political Research Quarterly, 48, 827-836.
8. Brams, S. J. (1975). Newcomb's problem and prisoner's dilemma. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 19, 596-612.
9. Calvin, J. (1536/1813). The institutes of the Christian religion (Translated from the original Latin, and collated with the author's last edition in French, by John Allen). Philadelphia, PA: Presbyterian Board of Publication.
10. Caruso, E., Epley, N., & Bazerman, M. (2006). The costs and benefits of undoing egocentric responsibility assessments in groups. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 857-871.
11. Cialdini, R. B., Borden, R., Thorne, A., Walker, M., Freeman, S., & Sloane, L. T. (1976). Basking in reflected glory: Three (football) field studies. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 34, 366-375.
12. Cohen, J., & Cohen, P. (1983). Applied multiple regression/ correlation analysis for the behavioral sciences (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
13. Dawes, R. M., Orbell, J. M., Simmons, R. T., & van de Kragt, A. J. C. (1986). Organizing groups for collective action. American Political Science Review, 80, 1171-1185.
14. Downs, A. (1957). An economic theory of democracy. New York: Harper & Brothers.
15. Elster, J. (1985). Making sense of Marx. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
16. Feddersen, T. J. (2004). Rational choice theory and the paradox of not voting. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 18, 99-112.
17. Federal Election Commission. (1999). National voter turnout in federal elections. (1960-1996, http://www.fec.gov).
18. Ferejohn, J. A., & Fiorina, M. P. (1974). The paradox of not voting: A decision theoretical analysis. American Political Science Review, 68, 525-536.
19. Fischer, A. J. (1999). The probability of being decisive. Public Choice, 101, 276-283.
20. Geys, B. (2006). "Rational"theories of voter turnout: A review. Political Studies Review, 4, 16-35.
21. Gonzalez, C. M., & Tyler, T. R. (this issue). The psychology of enfranchisement: Engaging and fostering inclusion of members through voting and decision making procedures.
22. Grafstein, R. (1991). An evidential decision theory of turnout. American Journal of Political Science, 35, 989-1010.
23. Grafstein, R. (2002). What rational political actors can expect. Journal of Theoretical Politics, 14, 139-165.
24. Harder, J., & Krosnick, J. A. (this issue). Why do people vote? A psychological analysis of the causes of voter turnout.
25. Highton, B. (2004). Voter registration and turnout in the United States. Perspectives on Politics, 2, 507-515.
26. Hurley, S. (2005). Social heuristics that make us smarter. Philosophical Psychology, 18, 585-612.
27. Jeffrey, R. (1983). The logic of decision (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
28. Kanazawa, S. (1998). A possible solution to the paradox of voter turnout. Journal of Politics, 60, 974-995.
29. Kanazawa, S. (2000). A new solution to the collective action problem: The paradox of voter turnout. American Sociological Review, 65, 433-442.
30. Krueger, J. (2000). Distributive judgments under uncertainty: Paccioli's game revisited. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 129, 546-558.
31. Krueger, J. I. (2007). From social projection to social behavior. European Review of Social Psychology, 18, 1-35.
32. Krueger, J. I. (2008). The robust beauty of simple associations. In J. I. Krueger (Ed.), Rationality and social responsibility: Essays in honor of Robyn M. Dawes (pp. 111-140). New York: Psychology Press.
33. Krueger, J. I., & Acevedo, M. (2005). Social projection and the psychology of choice. In M. D. Alicke, D. Dunning & J. I. Krueger (Eds.), The self in social perception (pp. 17-41). New York: Psychology Press.
34. Krueger, J. I., & Acevedo, M. (2007). Perceptions of self and other in the prisoner's dilemma: Outcome bias and evidential reasoning. American Journal of Psychology, 120, 593-618.
35. Krueger, J., & Clement, R. W. (1996). Inferring category characteristics from sample characteristics: Inductive reasoning and social projection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 125, 52-68.
36. Langer, E. J. (1975). The illusion of control. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 32, 311-328.
37. Lanning, K. (this issue). Democracy, voting, and disenfranchisement in the United States: A social psychological perspective.
38. Meehl, P. E. (1977). The selfish voter paradox and the thrown-away vote argument. American Political Science Review, 71, 11-30.
39. Messick, D. M., Bloom, S. J. P., & Samuelson, C. D. (1985). Why we are fairer than others. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 21, 480-500.
40. Nowak, M., & Sigmund, K. (1993). A strategy of win-stay, lose-shift that outperforms tit-for-tat in the Prisoner's Dilemma game. Nature, 364, 56-58.
41. Opp, K.-D. (2001). Why do people vote?The cognitive-illusion proposition and its tests. Kyklos, 54, 355-378.
42. Plutzer, E. (2002). Becoming a habitual voter: Inertia, resources, and growth in young adulthood. American Political Science Review, 96, 41-56.
43. Quattrone, G. A., & Tversky, A. (1984). Causal versus diagnostic contingencies: On self-deception and on the voter's illusion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 46, 237-248.
44. Riker, W. H., & Ordeshook, P. C. (1968). A theory of the calculus of voting. American Political Science Review, 62, 25-43.
45. Robbins, J. M., & Krueger, J. I. (2005). Social projection to ingroups and outgroups: A review and meta-analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 9, 32-47.
46. Skyrms, B. (1996). Evolution of the social contract. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
47. Stanovich, K. E., Sá, W. C., & West, R. F. (2004). Individual differences in thinking, reasoning, and decision making. In J. P. Leighton & R. J. Sternberg (Eds.), The nature of reasoning (pp. 375-409). New York: Cambridge University Press.
48. Thorndike, E. L. (1898). Animal intelligence: An experimental study of the associative processes in animals. Psychological Review (Monograph Supplement) 2 (8).
49. Tullock, G. (1975). The paradox of not voting for oneself. American Political Science Review, 69, 919.
50. Wegner, D. M. (2002). The illusion of conscious will. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
51. Wu, J., & Axelrod, R. (1995). How to cope with noise in the iterated prisoner's dilemma. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 39, 183-189.