Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lee, Dwight R.
• Murphy, Ryan H.

Titel

An expressive voting model of anger, hatred, harm and shame

Ist Teil von

• Public choice, 2017-12, Vol.173 (3/4), p.307-323

Ort / Verlag

New York: Springer Science + Business Media

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

EBSCOhost Business Source Ultimate

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• To consider some political implications of angry voters, we alter the standard expressive model in a fundamental way. One result is that an angry voter with a strong sense of shame at the thought of voting to harm others, may still do so, even when the harm is brutal. Indeed, his willingness to vote for harming others may increase if the proposed harm becomes more severe, even though the angry voter is more “decent” (less willing to harm others) than most of us sometimes are. Several examples are given that are consistent with the most troubling implications of the model. An empirical appendix follows the concluding section which tests the implications of the model indirectly.