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Public Choice 42:311-325 (1984). © 1984 Martinus N~]hoff Publishers, The Hague. Printed in the Netherlands. To right to select or not to suffrage: The enigma of non voting* G U I L L E R M O OWEN** B E R N A R D G R O F M A N * * * Abstract One enigma of voting states that, in a general election, in which legion(predicate) another(prenominal) citizens vote, the prob- ability that a single voter can claim the outcome is so small that in general citizens victuals no rational reason for voting. However, if all citizens accept this reasoning, thence none will vote, and so each vote has a large probability of affecting the outcome. Hence all should vote after all. The adoption of mixed strategies resolves this paradox: if each citizen adopts a certain (small) probability of voting, then the actual number of citizens voting will be just enough to make it expense those citizen s while to vote. A Nash equilibrium point thus occurs. here(predicate) we envision Nash equilibria for the simple case of majority voting; for the more mingled case of composite voting (for example, as in a presidential election), we draw certain qualitative inferences. 1. mental infirmary I f he is r a t i o n a l , a citizen will v o t e o n l y if his e x p e c t e d pander f r o m v o t i n g ( n a m e l y , t h e p r o b a b i l i t y t h a t his v o t e will m a k e a d i f f e r e n c e in electing his p r e f e r r e d c a n d i d a t e , m u l t i p l i e d by the d i f f e r e n c e in repute b e t w e e n his p r e f e r r e d c a n d i d a t e a n d that c a n d i d a t e s o p p o n e n t ) exceeds t h e costs o f v o t i n g ( R i k e r a n d O r d e s h o o k , 1968; see c o r r e c t i o n in M c K e l v e y ! a n d * This research was supported by NSF set aside # SES 80-07915, Program in Political Science. We thank the members of the staff of the Word...If you loss to get a full essay, order it on our website: OrderEssay.net

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