Information acquisition and voting behaviour

该项目旨在了解公民决定获取有关民主国家内不同政策建议的信息，以及这些信息如何影响他们的投票行为。适当的民主有赖于其公民在知情的情况下参与政治辩论和政治机构。该项目旨在提供正式的信息获取理论以及关于投票决定如何由信息的数量和质量决定的经验证据。了解公民如何决定获取信息，将有助于制定政策，减少两极分化，提高政治辩论和民主的质量。

This project aims to understand citizens’ decisions to acquire information about different policy proposals within a democracy and how such information affects their voting behaviour. Proper democracies rely on the informed participation of their citizens in the political debate and political institutions. The project intends to provide formal theories of information acquisition together with empirical evidence on how voting decisions are shaped by the quantity and quality of information. Understanding how citizens decide to acquire information would help devise policies to reduce polarisation and improve the quality of the political debate and the democracy.