The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies

By Jeffrey S. Friedman. Perspectives on Politics, 2008

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Feasible taxation in advanced democracies (2016, unknown): “For example, one could follow Caplan (2007), and claim that voters are rationally irrational, so that they end up assessing performance by considering both the lawmakers’ compliance with the voters’ irrational preferences expressed in the ballot booth, and the objective results actually obtained,…”
Presidential Address: Social Transmission Bias in Economics and Finance (2020, unknown): “…as popular models (Shiller (1990)), mental constructs (Denzau and North (1994)), folk economics, models, or beliefs (Rubin (2003), Hirshleifer and Teoh (2009, 2018), Boyer and Petersen (2018)), mental models (Hoff and Stiglitz (2016)), and others (Rubin (2002), Caplan (2007), Hirshleifer (2008)).”
Expressive behavior in economics and politics (2010, background): “Bryan Caplan (2003, 2007) described self-deception in terms of preferences over beliefs and proposed that people believe what they want to believe by choosing the beliefs that give them highest utility, behavior that he called “rational irrationality”.”
The Nature and Origins of Misperceptions: Understanding False and Unsupported Beliefs About Politics (2017, background): “As with heuristics, scholars continue to debate the usefulness of aggregation for overcoming ignorance (e.g., Caplan, 2007; Kuklinski & Quirk, 2000).”
Democratic Reason: Politics, collective intelligence and the rule of the many (2014, background): “In chapter 7, she criticizes Caplan’s (2008) The Myth of the Review”
The interaction of entrepreneurship and institutions (2010, unknown): “The quality of the meta-institutions includes the norms, values, and beliefs of the general public – better informed and more socially oriented voters are more likely to reward socially beneficial reforms (Caplan, 2007; Strömberg, 2004).”
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition (2014, background): “Given the circumstances of low attentiveness to politics and a general lack of political interest and knowledge among the average voter across the globe (Caplan, 2007; Dalton, 2006; Delli Carpini & Keeter, 1996), empirical evidence suggests that a substantial share of voters do not vote in accordanc”