Psychologically-based voting with uncertainty

European Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 40, Issue , 2015, Pages 242-259

  Degan, Arianna ^a,b   Li, Ming ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CIRPÉE ^*  (Canada)

^c Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^d Canada H3A 2T7   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behavioural political economy; Informed voters; Psychology and economics; Regret; Uninformed voters; Voter turnout

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928188801     PISSN: 01762680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2015.03.006     Document Type: Article

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