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Record Nr.

UNINA9910253353803321

Titolo

Voting Experiments / / edited by André Blais, Jean-François Laslier, Karine Van der Straeten

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 333 p. 35 illus., 25 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

339.5

Soggetti

Political economy

Welfare economics

Social sciences

Behavioral economics

Political theory

Industrial psychology

International Political Economy

Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy

Methodology of the Social Sciences

Behavioral/Experimental Economics

Political Theory

Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Part 1: Processing information about candidates / Voting correctly -- Deciding correctly: Variance in the effective use of party cues -- The company makes the feast. Party conflict and issue voting in multi-party systems -- Candidate extremity, information environments, and political polarization: Three experiments in a dynamic process tracing environment -- Common knowledge and voter coordination: Experimental evidence from Mali -- Part 2: Impact of polls on the decision to vote or to abstain -- Are people more or less inclined to vote when aggregate turnout is high?- Visibility and sanctions: The social norm of voting in the lab -- Part 3: Impact of polls on candidate



choice: bandwagon effect and strategic voting -- Experiments on the effects of opinion polls and implications for laws banning pre-election polling -- Polls, partisanship, and voter decision-making: An experimental analysis -- Coalitions, coordination and electoral choice: A lab experimental study of strategic voting -- Patterns of strategic voting in run-off elections -- Strategic voting and personality traits -- Part 4: Methodological debate and innovations -- Individual behavior under evaluative voting: A comparison between laboratory and in situ experiments -- Recruiting for laboratory voting experiments: Exploring the (potential) sampling bias -- Measuring perceptions of candidate viability in voting experiments -- Electoral system and number of candidates: Candidate entry under plurality and majority runoff -- Through the polling booth curtain – a visual experiment on citizens’ behavior inside the polling booth.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a collection of papers illustrating the variety of "experimental" methodologies used to study voting. Experimental methods include laboratory experiments in the tradition of political psychology, laboratory experiments with monetary incentives, in the economic tradition, survey experiments (varying survey, question wording, framing or content), as well as various kinds of field experimentation. Topics include the behavior of voters (in particular turnout, vote choice, and strategic voting), the behavior of parties and candidates, and the comparison of electoral rules.