Providing policy information and citizen learning

Individuals are faced with two types of uncertainty when they are expected to vote the best alternative for a certain project: one is whether the individuals´ interests are common upon the government´s interest and the other is whether the project is better or worse for them. In this paper, an incomplete information game is formulated to investigate communication processes between a government and an individual. The model describes how the individual is motivated to believe what the government says. Alternative message systems are presented in order to encourage the individual to trust the government. It is shown that the information systems to verify whether the individual´s interests are common upon the government´s interests can induce the individual to make a rational choice of the project alternatives.