Rational ignorance is not bliss: when do lazy voters learn from decentralised policy experiments?

A popular argument about economic policy under uncertainty states that decentralisation offers the possibility to learn from local or regional policy experiments. We argue that such learning processes are not trivial and do not occur frictionlessly: Voters have an inherent tendency to retain a given...

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1. Verfasser:	Schnellenbach, Jan (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp:	Buch/Monographie Arbeitspapier
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	Heidelberg University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics May 30, 2007
Ausgabe:	This version: May 30, 2007
Schriftenreihe:	Discussion paper series / Universität Heidelberg, Department of Economics no. 441
In:	Discussion paper series (no. 441)
Schlagworte:	Arbeitspapier Graue Literatur
Online-Zugang:	Resolving-System, Volltext: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/127260 Verlag, Volltext: http://www.awi.uni-heidelberg.de/with2/Discussion%20papers/papers/dp441.pdf
Verfasserangaben:	Jan Schnellenbach