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Voting: Comparing the Michigan and Columbia Models

Why do people vote? What factors contribute to people’s eventual voting choice, and which factors that seem like they should be relevant are actually meaningless in the aggregate? Political scientists have long investigated questions of how people end up at their eventual voting choice, and the relative strength of the decisive factors are still debated …

Anthony Downs’ Economic Theory of Democracy

Earlier this month on 2 October, 2021, American economist Anthony Downs died at the age of 91. Throughout his life, Downs made major contributions to fields such as political choice theory and the economics of housing and transportation. This post will explore his major work “An Economic Theory of Democracy.” The widely cited and read …