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Warm glow voting? An analysis of turnout In Portugal
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Modern democracies rely on civic participation, namely through voting. In this
work, I use rational choice theory and the paradox of voting to analyse individuals’
voting motivations using data of the Portuguese electorate, collected and built by me
(1200 observations). As a novel contribution to the discussion, I conduct a randomized
controlled trial using two treatments. One tests the importance of the act of voting
while the other tests the probability of being pivotal in an election. I find individuals
vote because they value the act of voting – warm glow voting. Finally, I find evidence
suggesting that providing information about the importance of voting increases
turnout while there is no impact of information about the probability of being pivotal.
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Calculus of voting warm glow Sense of duty Experimental