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Public choice

the choice of voters to stay uninformed about politics because the cost of information exceeds the tiny expected benefit of a better informed vote.

In public choice, rational ignorance refers to the choice of voters to stay uninformed about politics because the cost of information exceeds the tiny expected benefit of a better informed vote. This meaning comes from Downs (1957) in Journal of Political Economy.[1]

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References

Downs, A. (1957). An Economic Theory of Political Action in a Democracy. Journal of Political Economy, 65(2), 135-150. https://doi.org/10.1086/257897

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