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ECONOMIC VOTING AND PUZZLES FOR RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY

This brief paper discusses some of the contradictions to Rational Choice Theory that studies on economic voting run into, most notably the grievance asymmetry and the cost of ruling, and I will discuss possible explanations and implications of these two, introducing some new theory, among them the concept of gratification asymmetry. Issues such as naivete, myopic retrospections, and pro-social concerns are touched upon more briefly in the