Ignorance helps avoid the psychological dissonance that awareness of vote inefficacy would create. If voters became consciously aware that their votes don’t matter, they would face both psychological discomfort and weakened participation incentives
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Ecological rationality and democratic ignorance: reconciling rational and radical accounts of voter behavior - Public Choice
This paper addresses a central debate in public choice theory between rational ignorance models, which view voter ignorance as strategic response to vote inefficacy, and radical ignorance models, whic...
