Direct voting on milk price decontrol
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12008276 |
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| Authors | Clifford F Thies (0000-0002-9894-9761, University of Baltimore, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 45-51 |
| Publication date | 1988-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Social Science Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0362-3319 • E-ISSN: 1873-5355 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1016/0362-3319(88)90052-3 |
| OpenAlex | W1971987893 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Ballot initiatives offer opportunities to test theories about consumer knowledge of economic issues. The received theory is that initiative and referendum elections give people a greater opportunity to repeal special interest laws than is possible for legislators. This argument assumes that the majority of voters know their own self-interest while being rationally ignorant of the positions taken on special interest legislation by candidates, but to what extent do voters know their own economic interest? This article, which examines the votes on milk price decontrol ballot initiatives in Montana in 1984 and 1986, finds that voters with more knowledge voted to repeal the price controls
Argument (complex analysis · Ballot · Economics · Law and economics · Legislation · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Referendum · Repeal · Special Interest Group · Voting · American History and Culture · Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets · Law · Wine Industry and Tourism
| Highly cited | No |
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