Economists Say That Voters Are Rationally Ignorant About Politics Because

question 187

Multiple Choice

Economists say that voters are rationally ignorant about politics because:

• A) the procedure of learning politics is too cumbersome.
• B) politics is too complicated.
• C) the opportunity cost of studying politics is too high.
• D) the incentives to be fully informed are low.

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Definitions:

Group Size

Refers to the number of individuals forming a group, which could influence the group's dynamics and functionality.

Obedience

The act of following orders or instructions from an authority figure, sometimes studied in the context of social psychology experiments.

Milgram's Research

A series of social psychology experiments in the 1960s that studied obedience to authority figures.

Learner Made Mistake

A situation where a person who is in the process of learning something does something incorrectly.