rational ignorance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrationalandignorance
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rational
adjective
uk/ˈræʃ.ən.əl/us/ˈræʃ.ən.əl/
based on clear thought ...
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ignorance
noun[U]
uk/ˈɪɡ.nər.əns/us/ˈɪɡ.nɚ.əns/
lack of knowledge, understanding, or information ...
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(Definition ofrationalandignorancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We begin with the well-established idea of therationalignoranceof citizen-voters.
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Electoral competition in the face ofrationalignorancewill not necessarily drive candidate or party surpluses to zero.
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Rationalignorancemight be conceived as adding statistical noise to an otherwise essentially deterministic system.
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The expressive voting argument is especially salient, in our view, because it works with the grain of therationalignoranceargument rather than against it.
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This collectively irrational but individuallyrationalignorancecan be exploited by concentrated gains groups.
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Taken together, these three considerations suggest to us that the idea ofrationalignoranceestablishes a basis for a positive, first-best argument for representation.
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The concept ofrationalignorance, however, raises the question of how many are really interested in the details of government.
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The first simply observes thatrationalignorancetends to deflect the force of many other considerations.
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This would eliminate discourse failure resulting both fromrationalignoranceand political posturing.
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The logic ofrationalignoranceaccounts for the often-noted divergence between providing individuals with the information they want versus the information they need as citizens.
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This sketch is developed in the next two sections which build from the familiar idea ofrationalignoranceto the idea of expressive behaviour.
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Individual votes do not reflect the interests of the voters - even in the rough and ready way that might be true in therationalignoranceformulation.
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The second part of our response to the point aboutrationalignoranceof dispositions relates to the incentive for relatively virtuous candidates to signal their dispositions.
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Downs's theory ofrationalignorancepredicts that news about politics may be under provided.
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In this way, expressive voting undermines the normative credibility of direct democracy in a manner much more radical than that threatened by the more standard idea ofrationalignorance.
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In other cases, the direction of the market failure may be clearer, such as the underprovision of hard news because ofrationalignoranceamong viewers/voters.
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Caplan rejects many of the public choice arguments forrationalignorance, while embracing the traditional conclusions of public choice.
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Rational irrationality andrationalignoranceshare some key similarities but are also different in a number of ways.
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It resulted in water pollution due torationalignorance.
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