Voting Experiments (eBook)

Karine Van Der Straeten, Toulouse School of Economics, CNRS, Toulouse, France Jean-François Laslier, Paris School of Economics, CNRS, Paris, France André Blais, Université de Montréal, Département de science politique, Montréal, QC, Canada

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.