Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP190102629

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP190102629

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Information acquisition and voting behaviour. 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.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 25-01-2019

End Date: 31-12-2023

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $213,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Microeconomic Theory | Experimental Economics | Applied Economics |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in Economics | Political Systems | Preference, Behaviour and Welfare

Other Keywords

Applied Economics | Expanding Knowledge in Economics | Experimental Economics | Microeconomic Theory | Political Systems | Preference, Behaviour and Welfare

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