How Well Do Voters Behave?
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This chapter examines some relevant social-scientific literature that suggests that voters and citizens are often ignorant, irrational, and systematically in error in their political beliefs. Though voters tend to vote for what they believe serves the nation's interests, this does not imply that they are justified in these beliefs or that their beliefs are true. Voters intend to promote the national interest, but that does not imply that they in fact do so. Good intentions are not enough to make good policy. Voters might not know what they are doing. It may turn out that some or many of them are mistaken about what promotes the national interest. If so, then their altruistic intentions do not benefit anyone.
2018 ◽
Vol 11
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pp. 222
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2016 ◽
Vol 30
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pp. 335-353
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2015 ◽
Vol 4
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pp. 4-21
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2020 ◽
Vol 26
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pp. 147-161