Some people ask me about my dissertation. For anyone who might be interested in reading it, I have made available a PDF version of my dissertation.

Proposed solutions to the paradox of voting: an assessment of the role of economics in explaining why people vote (PDF, 760 KB)

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  1. [...] an aside, if anyone’s interested, I have decided to upload my dissertation here since it got the best mark of anything I ever did at university so I feel quite good about it! So [...]

  2. [...] Just as a final point, much of my thinking in this area came about as a result of the research I did for my dissertation, which was about the “paradox of voting“. In case you want to read more about voting behaviour, I have uploaded my dissertation here. [...]

  3. [...] I find this an interesting situation. In the wake of a barrage of apathy-inducing news, and in the face of the most stupefyingly boring elections on the face of the planet, can I bring myself to vote? Or, more to the point, can I bring myself not to vote? Will feelings of civic duty trump the temptation to rationally abstain? [...]

  4. [...] it is apparently against their interests to do so? If you happen to fancy a read of it, it’s available to download — although I should warn you that it’s all in [...]

  5. [...] often enthuse about the paradox of voting — the phenomenon whereby economists struggle to explain why people vote. But when I talk [...]

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