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.
Keywords
- Condorcet jury theorem
- Divided majority problem
- Voting
- Homo moralis
- Kantian morality
- Social dilemmas
Internal reference
- PSE Working Papers n°2020-78
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