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

Article dans une revue: This paper revisits two classical problems in the theory of voting—viz. the divided majority problem and the strategic revelation of information—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.

Auteur(s)

Ingela Alger, Jean-François Laslier

Revue
  • Journal of Theoretical Politics
Date de publication
  • 2022
Pages
  • 280-312
Version
  • 1
Volume
  • 34