We use laboratory experiments to test for one of the foundations of the rational voter paradigm - that voters respond … insights. First, voting propensity increases systematically with subjects' predictions of their preferred alternative …

informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of …. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters …

Conventional wisdom suggests that compulsory voting lowers the influence of specialinterest groups and leads to … policies that are better for less privileged citizens, who often abstain when voting is voluntary. To scrutinize this … conventional wisdom, I study public goods provision and rents to special-interest groups in a probabilistic voting model with …

Are grants to Swedish municipalities tactical? In this essay, I derive testable implications from a theoretical voting …