Bounded rationality and voting

What is it about?

We investigate whether a higher level of complexity leads to increased reliance on trusted parliamentary representatives. When constituents face a higher level of complexity, they follow parliamentary recommendations rather than recommendations of interest groups.

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Why is it important?

We show that when political decisions are complex citizens rely more on trusted representatives. Moreover, our analysis provides valuable insights into how humans use limited computational capacity to handle differences in information complexity, a type of complexity always present in modern societies but particularly so in politics where managing the distribution of scarce attention resources among competing agenda is vital to policy formation.