1.26. Victory margin vs. Opportunity-cost of time as voter enrollment motivators in the biobio region.

Autores: Acuña, A.

Palabras Clave: citizen participation, corner solution model, victory margin, voting behavior.

The voting behavior literature is based on the pioneer work of Anthony Downs in 1957 and Gordon Tullock in 1967 (cited by Barzel & Silberberg, 1973), but it was mainly developed in the seventies. During this decade, the efforts were focused not only to giving theoretical support to electoral involvement from the economic rationality perspective (Frey, 1971; Barzel & Silberberg, 1973; Ferejohn & Fiorina, 1974), but also to identify the relevance of social and economics variables over voter participation (Silberman & Durden, 1975; Settle & Abrams, 1976)…