This activity explores the costs and benefits associated with voting in national elections. Specifically, the concepts of rational apathy, rational ignorance and expressive voting are explained.

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Concepts

voting, cost

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Additional Tags

benefit analysis, council for economic education, econedlink, econedlink: the economics of voting: what do you mean my vote doesn't count?, incentive, expressive voting, rational apathy, rational ignorance, voting economics

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Classroom Considerations

Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
The intended use for this resource is Instructional

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