Why Do We Vote? - Episode References

Experts consulted: 

Professor Donald Green - Columbia University    https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/donald-p-green 

Downs, A. (1957). An economic theory of political action in a democracy. Journal of political economy, 65(2), 135-150.

Other sources:

• Cunow, S., Desposato, S., Janusz, A. & Sells, C. Less is more: The paradox of choice in voting behavior. Electoral Studies 69, 102230 (2021).

Rolfe, M. Voter Turnout: A Social Theory of Political Participation. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2013).

• Brennan, G. & Lomasky, L. E. Democracy and Decision: The Pure Theory of Electoral Preference. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008).

• Gerber A.S,. Green D.P., Larimer C.W. Social Pressure and Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment. American Political Science Review. 2008;102(1):33-48. doi:10.1017/S000305540808009X

• Edlin, A., Gelman, A. & Kaplan, N. Voting as a Rational Choice: Why and How People Vote To Improve the Well-Being of Others. Rationality and Society 19, 293–314 (2007).

• Geys, B. ‘Rational’ Theories of Voter Turnout: A Review. Political Studies Review 4, 16–35 (2006).

• Feddersen, T. J. Rational Choice Theory and the Paradox of Not Voting. The Journal of Economic Perspectives 18, 99–112 (2004).

• Green, D. P. & Shapiro, I. Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory: A Critique of Applications in Political Science. (Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, Conn., 1994).

• McGann, A. Voting Choice and Rational Choice. in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics.

Further reading:

• https://www.rochelleterman.com/ComparativeExam/sites/default/files/Bibliography%20and%20Summaries/Downs%201957.pdf

• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0951692899011002001

• https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/publications/working_papers/1236UnequalAltruism.pdf

• https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2307/2647727?journalCode=jop

• https://www.jstor.org/stable/3216877

• https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2020/entries/voting/

• https://daily.jstor.org/what-makes-us-vote-the-way-we-do/

• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1043463107077384

• https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.2202/1553-3832.1381/html

• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231980865_Vindicating_Anthony_Downs

• https://oxfordre.com/politics/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228637-e-79

• https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/presidential-election-mandates

• https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/abs/social-pressure-and-voter-turnout-evidence-from-a-largescale-field-experiment/11E84AF4C0B7FBD1D20C855972C2C3EB

• https://www.jstor.org/stable/30023157

• https://academic.oup.com/pq/article/74/3/844/7278884

• https://sites.socsci.uci.edu/~bgrofman/B58-Turnout-Paradox.pdf

• https://web.mit.edu/6.034/www/6.s077/Buckner-2017-Philosophy_and_Phenomenological_Research.pdf

• https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/phc3.12774

• https://web.stanford.edu/~mfiorina/Fiorina%20Web%20Files/Paradox.pdf

• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0049237X08700648

• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17550343/

• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2614248/

• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1043463107077384

• https://plato.stanford.edu/Entries/altruism-biological/

• https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2013596117

• https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.75.1.385

• https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/abs/social-pressure-and-voter-turnout-evidence-from-a-largescale-field-experiment/11E84AF4C0B7FBD1D20C855972C2C3EB