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Free keywords:
Costly voting;
Participation games;
Mixed strategy equilibrium;
Polynomials in Bernstein form
Abstract:
Abstract We characterize the symmetric Nash equilibria of the symmetric voter participation game with complete information from Palfrey and Rosenthal (1983). To do so, we use methods based on polynomials in Bernstein form to determine how the probability that a voter is pivotal depends on the participation probability and the number of players in the game.
