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Participation quorum when voting is costly

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F25840886%3A_____%2F21%3AN0000041" target="_blank" >RIV/25840886:_____/21:N0000041 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Alternative codes found

    RIV/00216208:11640/22:00558886

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0176268021001063?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0176268021001063?via%3Dihub</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2021.102126" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2021.102126</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Participation quorum when voting is costly

  • Original language description

    Using a pivotal costly voting model of elections, we study how participation quorum requirements affect voters’ decisions to cast votes, and how they ultimately impact voter and candidate welfare. We solve the model analytically for the case of three voters and then provide numerical solutions for larger numbers of voters, and obtain several consistent results. First, we find that the effect of quorum requirements on voter turnout is non-monotonic and depends on ex-ante support for the candidates. When support for the status-quo is low, a stricter quorum requirement results in higher turnout, while when it is high, the relationship is reversed. Second, we show that a stricter quorum requirement does not necessarily benefit a status quo candidate and can sometimes decrease her chances of winning an election. Third, we characterize optimal quorum requirements from the perspective of voter welfare, and find that, while optimal requirements vary with support for the candidates, too strict and too lenient requirements can be very harmful to voter welfare. Therefore, setting moderate quorum requirements close to half of the number of voters or setting no quorum requirement at all may be reasonable choices.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    50200 - Economics and Business

Result continuities

  • Project

    <a href="/en/project/GJ19-18741Y" target="_blank" >GJ19-18741Y: The Efficiency of Electoral Policies under Costly Voting</a><br>

  • Continuities

    N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Others

  • Publication year

    2021

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    European Journal of Political Economy

  • ISSN

    01762680

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    102126

  • Country of publishing house

    NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

  • Number of pages

    15

  • Pages from-to

  • UT code for WoS article

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85116754363