バンドワゴンタイプ有権者と投票率
2008 年 2008 巻 50 号 p. 13-25
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2008 年 2008 巻 50 号 p. 13-25
The aim of this paper is to present a new rational choice theory of voting which contains Bandwagon-type voters that all the existing rational choice theories of voting have failed to deal with and to present a way of showing the turnout rate as a Bayesian Nash equilibrium in the more general and plausible framework.
The findings of this paper are (1) There exists a Bayesian Nash equilibrium which corresponds to substantial turnout in the rational choice theory of voting which contains almost all the types of preference including Bandwagon-type. (2) My research shows that there are unnegligible percentage of Bandwagontype voters in the electorate of the First District in Kagawa at the General Election in 2005. This means all the existing rational choice theories of voting based on the expression ‘R= pB-C+D are not plausible.
