caa a22 4500 477078192 CHVBK 20180405111443.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19961001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00114279 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00114279 Harbaugh W. Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin, 53706, Madison, WI aut If people vote because they like to, then why do so many of them lie? [Elektronische Daten] [W. Harbaugh] Of those eligible, about 40% do not vote in presidential elections. When asked, about a quarter of those nonvoters will lie to the survey takers and claim that they did. Increases in education are associated with higher voting rates and lower rates of lying overall, but with increased rates of lying conditional on not voting. This paper proposes a model of voter turnout in which people who claim to vote get praise from other citizens. Those who lie must bear the cost of lying. The model has a stable equilibrium with positive rates of voting, honest non-voting, and lying. Reasonable parameter changes produce changes in these proportions in the same direction as the changes actually observed across education levels. I argue that a model where people vote because they want to be known as voters provides a better explanation for observed voting behavior than does a model where people vote because they want to vote. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996 Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers; http://www.wkap.nl 89/1-2(1996-10-01), 63-76 0048-5829 89:1-2<63 1996 89 11127 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00114279 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00114279 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Harbaugh W. Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin, 53706, Madison, WI aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers; http://www.wkap.nl 89/1-2(1996-10-01), 63-76 0048-5829 89:1-2<63 1996 89 11127 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer