foot voting

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释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Expressing one's preferences through one's actions, by voluntarily participating in or withdrawing from an activity, group, or process; especially, physical migration to leave a situation one does not like, or to move to a situation one regards as more beneficial.

    习语 不可数

    Foot voting provides much stronger incentives than ballot box voting for both information acquisition and rational information use.

    Foot voting is an inherently selfish individual move; it is not intended to serve the body politic.

    We already do a lot of foot voting in Nigeria, mostly by migrating abroad in search of greener pastures for reasons that are usually economic. Even within Nigeria, some foot voting is happening with the increase in rural-urban migration.