A Model of Farsighted Voting

I present a new method of interpreting voter preferences in settings where policy remains in effect until replaced by new legislation. In such settings voters consider not only the utility they receive from a given policy today, but also the utility they will receive from policies likely to replace...

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Published inAmerican journal of political science Vol. 53; no. 1; pp. 36 - 54
Main Author Penn, Elizabeth Maggie
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Malden, USA Blackwell Publishing Inc 01.01.2009
Blackwell Publishing
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Subjects
Changes
Civil unions
Court ordered mandates
Gay rights
Legislation
Long-term analysis
Mathematical functions
Modeling
Nash equilibrium
Policy
Policy action
Political change
Political science
Preferences
Public policy
Rational choice
Spatial models
Strategic behaviour
U.S.A
Utility theory
Voter behavior
Voters
Voting
Voting Behavior
Voting behaviour
Voting paradox
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Summary:I present a new method of interpreting voter preferences in settings where policy remains in effect until replaced by new legislation. In such settings voters consider not only the utility they receive from a given policy today, but also the utility they will receive from policies likely to replace that policy in the future. The model can be used to characterize both long-term preferences and distributions over policy outcomes in situations where policy is ongoing and voters are farsighted.
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Thanks to Michael Alvarez, Kim Border, Barry Burden, John Duggan, Tim Feddersen, Jeff Frieden, Sean Gailmard, Sunshine Hillygus, Matthew Jackson, Tasos Kalandrakis, Jonathan Katz, Gary King, Andy Kydd, Lisa Martin, Steven Matthews, Abhinay Muthoo, Roger Myerson, Clayton Nall, Tom Palfrey, John Patty, Eric Schickler, and Mike Ting. I am particularly grateful for the support and advice of Richard McKelvey, and this article is dedicated to him. Please send questions and comments to
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epenn@latte.harvard.edu
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ISSN:0092-5853
1540-5907
DOI:10.1111/j.1540-5907.2008.00356.x