In the last mid-term election only 37 percent of the voting age population voted. Pundits ask: why do so few people vote? But economists tend to ask the opposite question: why do so many people vote?
So Why Do People Vote?
Also published in Forbes Mon. November 3, 2014
John C. Goodman is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, author of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis and President of the Goodman Institute for Public Policy Research.
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