El estudio de la participación electoral ha interesado por gran tiempo a la ciencia política debido a su importancia teórica, empírica y metodológica. La investigación busca estimar el poder predictivo de un modelo de la ...

O objetivo deste trabalho é abordar uma das linhas de investigação que tenta explicar o comportamento dos indivíduos no voto, a teoria da escolha racional ou teoria econômica do voto, a qual defende que os eleitores votam ...

Democracy and efficiency: hard relations between politics and economy. Many economists see politics as an irrational activity. They also think state action usually generates market inefficiencies and democratic institutions, ...

The Brazilian party system presents us with a history that draws attention to the changes it has undergone during its recent history, marked by crises, interruptions, discontinuity and a great difficulty of consolidation. ...

This Brief uses game-theoretic analysis to debunk the turnout paradox and offers an alternative economic model to elucidate the patterns behind the socioeconomic bias in turnout. The author argues that the turnout paradox—the ...