Meaning of foot voting | Babel Free

Definitions

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.

idiomatic, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level