An estimate of risk aversion in the US electorate

被引:38
作者
Berinsky, Adam J.
Lewis, Jeffrey B.
机构
[1] MIT, Dept Polit, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[2] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Polit Sci, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
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D O I
10.1561/100.00005055
中图分类号
D0 [政治学、政治理论];
学科分类号
0302 ; 030201 ;
摘要
Recent work in political science has taken up the question of issue voting under conditions of uncertainty - situations in which voters have imperfect information about the policy positions of candidates. We move beyond the assumption of a particular spatial utility function and develop a model to estimate voters' preferences for risk. Contrary to the maintained hypothesis in the literature, voters do not appear to have the strongly risk averse preferences implied by quadratic preferences.
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页码:139 / 154
页数:16
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