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

Dwight R. Lee () and Ryan Murphy ()
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Dwight R. Lee: Southern Methodist University

Public Choice, 2017, vol. 173, issue 3, No 4, 307-323

Abstract: Abstract 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.

Keywords: Expressive voting; Anger; Hatred; Shame; Harm; Voting cascades; Trump; Duterte; Criminal sentences; Slavery; Hitler; Constitutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/s11127-017-0480-6

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