Should I Cast an Ill-Informed Ballot? Examining the Contours of the Normative Obligation to Vote

David Doherty; Conor M. Dowling; Alan S. Gerber; Gregory A. Huber

doi:10.1177/1532673x18821359

Should I Cast an Ill-Informed Ballot? Examining the Contours of the Normative Obligation to Vote

David Doherty
, Conor M. Dowling
, Alan S. Gerber
, Gregory A. Huber

Department of Political Science

University of Mississippi
Yale University

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Original language	American English
Journal	American Politics Research
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1532673x18821359
State	Published - Jan 14 2019

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