What do you think causes the difference between your behavior in small groups vs. in large groups? Perhaps if voting had small-group consequences you’d be more likely to. For example, suppose it were easy on social networks to see an overall “political participation score” for any given person, based on how many of the elections available to them they voted in.
There’s already big signalling benefits to voting. I think it explains why most people do it. However, it feels dirty for me to do something out of concern for my image, so I abstain.
Back when Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel prize, I remember reading a summary of her work that says self-management of the commons is possible when communities are a certain size. I forget the magic number, but I think it was something like 120,000.
What do you think causes the difference between your behavior in small groups vs. in large groups? Perhaps if voting had small-group consequences you’d be more likely to. For example, suppose it were easy on social networks to see an overall “political participation score” for any given person, based on how many of the elections available to them they voted in.
There’s already big signalling benefits to voting. I think it explains why most people do it. However, it feels dirty for me to do something out of concern for my image, so I abstain.
Back when Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel prize, I remember reading a summary of her work that says self-management of the commons is possible when communities are a certain size. I forget the magic number, but I think it was something like 120,000.