Homo moralis goes to the voting booth: coordination and information aggregation

Pre-print, Working paper: This paper revisits two classical problems in the theory of voting-viz. the divided majority problem and the strategic revelation of information by majority vote-in the light of evolutionarily founded partial Kantian morality. It is shown that, compared to electorates consisting of purely self-interested voters, such Kantian morality helps voters solve coordination problems and improves the information aggregation properties of equilibria, even for modest levels of morality.

Author(s)

Ingela Alger, Jean-François Laslier

Date of publication
  • 2020
Keywords
  • Condorcet jury theorem
  • Divided majority problem
  • Voting
  • Homo moralis
  • Kantian morality
  • Social dilemmas
Internal reference
  • PSE Working Papers n°2020-78
Version
  • 1