At work here is a combination of voters’ rational ignorance - TopicsExpress



          

At work here is a combination of voters’ rational ignorance about public policy, and their “rational irrationality” in analyzing the information they do know. Because the chance of influencing an electoral outcome is so low, most people spend little time and effort learning about government policy. Thus, they know very little about how most government policies work. For the same reason, they also make little effort to objectively evaluate the information they do learn. Often, they acquire that knowledge for reasons that are antithetical to truth-seeking, such as a desire reinforce their preexisting prejudices. I discuss both problems in detail in my forthcoming book Democracy and Political Ignorance. volokh/2013/06/04/public-ignorance-about-how-government-policy-works/#disqus_thread
Posted on: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:46:27 +0000

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