http://doctorvee.co.uk Not a real vee Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:10:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://doctorvee.co.uk/proposed-solutions-to-the-paradox-of-voting-an-assessment-of-the-role-of-economics-in-explaining-why-people-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-1238906 A pathetic situation « doctorvee Sun, 31 May 2009 00:12:15 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/?page_id=2257#comment-1238906 [...] 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? [...] [...] 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? [...]

]]> http://doctorvee.co.uk/proposed-solutions-to-the-paradox-of-voting-an-assessment-of-the-role-of-economics-in-explaining-why-people-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-1238897 Five disturbing things about democracy « doctorvee Sun, 31 May 2009 00:06:32 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/?page_id=2257#comment-1238897 [...] 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. [...] [...] 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. [...]

]]> http://doctorvee.co.uk/proposed-solutions-to-the-paradox-of-voting-an-assessment-of-the-role-of-economics-in-explaining-why-people-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-596679 In defence of abstention « doctorvee Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:32:01 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/?page_id=2257#comment-596679 [...] 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 [...] [...] 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 [...]

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