Conformism and Turnout

• Main Authors: LANDI, Massimiliano, SODINI, Mauro
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• Subjects: Turnout; compulsory voting; Poisson games; coordination games; conformism.; Political Economy
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1244; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2243/viewcontent/ConfandTurnoutFinal.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper proposes a model of turnout in which citizens have a preference for conformism, which adds to the instrumental preference for the electoral outcome. Under this environment multiple equilibria arise, some that generate a (more realistic) high level of turnout, for a wide rage of parameter...