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Voting Motives, Group Identity, and Social Norms
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| Title: | Voting Motives, Group Identity, and Social Norms |
| Authors: | Carlsson, Fredrik
Johansson-Stenman, Olof |
| Issue Date: | 2009-06-17 |
| Publication type: | report |
| Series/Report no.: | Working Papers in Economics
366 |
| Keywords: | social norms
self-interested voting
expressive voting
sociotropic voting
selfserving bias
group identity
in-group bias
social identity theory |
| Abstract: | The conventional rational voter model has problems explaining why people vote, since the
costs typically exceed the expected benefits. This paper presents Swedish survey evidence
suggesting that peo... moreple vote based on a combination of instrumental and expressive motives,
and that people are strongly influenced by a social norm saying that it is an obligation to vote.
Women and older individuals are more affected by this norm than others. The more rightwing
a person is, the less unethical he/she will perceive selfish voting to be. Moreover,
individuals believe that they themselves vote less selfishly than others and that people with
similar political views as themselves vote less selfishly than people with the opposite political
views, which is consistent with social identity theory. |
| ISSN: | 1403-2465 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2077/20427 |
| Appears in Collections: | Working papers
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