Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Lo Prete, Anna
Author-Email: anna.loprete@unito.it
Author-Name: Revelli, Federico
Author-Email: federico.revelli@unito.it
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Turin
Author-Workplace-Homepage: http://www.est.unito.it/
Title: Costly voting, turnout, and candidate valence
Abstract: We build a model of voluntary and costly expressive voting, where the relative weight of ideology and valence 
issues over voting costs determines how people vote and if they actually turn out to vote. In line with the conventional 
rational calculus approach, the model predicts that the cost of voting depresses voter turnout. Against the conventional 
wisdom, though, high voting cost/low turnout elections tend to have a larger share of voters for whom the common value 
signal on candidates’ valence matches their private value views, thus raising the chances that high valence candidates are elected.
Length: pages 14
Creation-Date: 2017-06
File-URL: http://www.est.unito.it/do/home.pl/Download?doc=/allegati/wp2017dip/wp_25_2017.pdf
File-Format: Application/PDF
Handle: RePEc:uto:dipeco:201725