Rational Choice Theory and the Paradox of Not Voting

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Meet the Press: How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit (2014, background): “We also show that this expansion in local news supply has neither followed a positive trend in newspaper readership, nor has lead to an overall increase in newspaper readership.(18) Then, in Section 3.”
Habit Formation in Voting: Evidence from Rainy Elections (2016, background): “Our finding should also further interest in the underlying psychological and social determinants of the consumption value voters gain from the act of voting and, as Feddersen (2004) suggests, in its implications for political economy models of strategic voter mobilization and suppression.”
Expressive behavior in economics and politics (2010, background): “For an overview of models with pivotal voters, see Feddersen (2004).”
Voting to Tell Others (2014, background): “[16] Feddersen, Timothy .”
The Effect of Newspaper Entry and Exit on Electoral Politics (2011, background): “E-mail: gentzkow@ChicagoBooth.edu, jesse.shapiro@ChicagoBooth.edu, msinkins@fas.harvard.edu.”