This study examined Belgian voters.
People cannot be expected to vote in an objective or well-informed manner, DAT
Goldman, Alvin I. Why Citizens Should Vote A Causal Responsibility Approach
Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation, 1999.
First let us ask what might be meant by the phrase "objectively best candidate" Elsewhere I have suggested that if candidate A would produce a set of outcomes higher on the preference-ordering of a majority of citizens than the set of outcomes candidate B would produce, then A is a democratically better candidate than B. This is one possible way to give content to the phrase "objectively best candidate" though others, of course, might be proposed. Now a voter might be said to have objectively good reasons to vote fora certain candidate if
that candidate is objectively best. But what if a citizen does not know, and indeed has no idea, which
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