Foot voting versus ballot box voting
Why voting with your feet is crucial to political freedom
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12869748 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ilya Somin (0000-0002-0241-7761, George Mason University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 587-602 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1680-4333 • E-ISSN: 1682-0983 |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1057/s41304-018-0195-2 |
| OpenAlex | W2902345943 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
Ballot box voting is the main mechanism of political choice in modern liberal democracies. It is also often thought of as the essence of political freedom. Traditional voting has significant virtues. But as a mechanism for exercising political freedom, ballot box voting has serious flaws. The average citizen has almost no chance of affecting the outcome of an electoral process. In part as a result, he or she also has strong incentives to make ill-informed and illogical decisions. “Voting with your feet” is a superior option on both fronts. It is thereby often a superior mechanism of political freedom
Ballot · Bullet voting · Cardinal voting systems · Democracy · Disapproval voting · Economics · First-past-the-post voting · Incentive · Instant-runoff voting · Law and economics · Mechanism (biology · Microeconomics · Political freedom · Political science · Politics · Straight-ticket voting · Voting · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Populism, Right-Wing Movements
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| Highly cited | No |