= Rational Choice Voting = '''Rational choice voting''' is a theory of voting behavior that studies the game theoretic and comparative outcomes. <> ---- == Description == Essentially [[PoliticalScience/InstitutionalDesign|Institutional Design]] applied to democratic voting rules. The foundations of this theory come from [[AnEconomicTheoryOfDemocracy|Downs]]. ---- == Reading Notes == * [[SocialChoiceDemocracyAndFreeMarkets|Social Choice, Democracy, and Free Markets]], James M. Buchanan, 1954 * [[IndividualChoiceInVotingAndTheMarket|Individual Choice in Voting and the Market]], James M. Buchanan, 1954 * [[AnEconomicTheoryOfDemocracy|An Economic Theory of Democracy]], Anthony Downs, 1957 * [[PositiveEconomicsWelfareEconomicsAndPoliticalEconomy|Positive Economics, Welfare Economics, and Political Economy]], James M. Buchanan, 1959 * [[TheCalculusOfConsent|The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy]], James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock, 1962 * [[ATheoryOfTheCalculusOfVoting|A Theory of the Calculus of Voting]], William H. Riker and Peter Ordeshook, 1968 * [[BargainingInLegislatures|Bargaining in Legislatures]], David P. Baron and John A. Ferejohn, 1989 * [[CandidateDrivenTicketSplittingInThe2000JapaneseElections|Candidate-driven ticket splitting in the 2000 Japanese elections]], Barry C. Burden, 2009 * [[WhenLoyaltyIsTested|When Loyalty Is Tested: Do Party Leaders Use Committee Assignments as Rewards?]], Nicole Asmussen and Adam J. Ramey, 2018 * [[AccessToHealthcareAndVoting|Access to Healthcare and Voting: The Case of Hospital Closures in Rural America]]; Christian Cox, Derek A. Epp, and Michael E. Shepherd; 2024 * [[UnderstandingVoterFatigue|Understanding Voter Fatigue: Election Frequency and Electoral Abstention Approval]], Filip Kostelka, 2025 * [[TheDirectCostToVotersOfPollingSiteClosuresAndConsolidation|The direct cost to voters of polling site closures and consolidation]], Scott Abramson and Sharece Thrower, 2025 * [[WhoCares|Who cares? Measuring differences in preference intensity]]; Charlotte Cavaillé, Daniel L. Chen, and Karine Van der Straeten; 2025 * [[MeasuringPartyLoyalty|Measuring party loyalty]], Adam J. Ramey, 2026 ---- CategoryRicottone