Book abstract: In recent years, remarkable progress has been made in behavioral research on a wide variety of topics, from behavioral…
Traditional models of why people vote conceptualize voting as a static, self-interested
decision. This conceptualization cannot explain why…
Please see RWP13-010 (April 2013) for the updated version of this working paper.
Ballot initiatives are consequential and common, with total spending on initiative campaigns in
the US rivaling that of Presidential…
How accurate are people when predicting whether they will vote? These self-predictions are used by political scientists to proxy for…