@article{91816e7205764586a4e2ce55e0132dfa,
title = "Making statements and approval voting",
abstract = "We assume that people have a need to make statements, and construct a model in which this need is the sole determinant of voting behavior. In this model, an individual selects a ballot that makes as close a statement as possible to her ideal point, where abstaining from voting is a possible (null) statement. We show that in such a model, a political system that adopts approval voting may be expected to enjoy a significantly higher rate of participation in elections than a comparable system with plurality rule.",
keywords = "Approval voting, Turnout",
author = "Enriqueta Aragones and Itzhak Gilboa and Andrew Weiss",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgements We are grateful to Steven Brams, Debraj Ray, David Schmeidler and Jean Tirole for comments and references. Aragones acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, grant number SEC2003-01961, and CREA-Barcelona Economics. Aragones and Gilboa gratefully acknowledge support from the Polarization and Conflict Project CIT-2-CT-2004-506084 funded by the European Commission-DG Research Sixth Framework Programme. Gilboa gratefully acknowledges support from the Israel Science Foundation Grant No. 975/03.",
year = "2011",
month = oct,
doi = "10.1007/s11238-010-9208-5",
language = "אנגלית",
volume = "71",
pages = "461--472",
journal = "Theory and Decision",
issn = "0040-5833",
publisher = "Springer Netherlands",
number = "4",
}