GHIRARDATO, PAOLO; KATZ, JONATHAN N. - In: Journal of Public Economic Theory 8 (2006) 3, pp. 379-399
In this paper, we show how to incorporate weight of evidence, or ambiguity, into a model of voting behavior. We do so in the context of the turnout decision of instrumentally rational voters who differ in their perception of the ambiguity of the candidates' policy positions. Ambiguity is...