Communication and Voting in Multiparty Elections: An Experimental Study

Autor(en)

Bernhard Kittel, Wolfgang J. Luhan, Rebecca Morton

Abstrakt

We investigate communication and costly voting in multiparty election experiments. Turnout is consistently lower in across electorate communication as compared to restricted communication within parties. Voters are more likely to choose the strategic voting option at the outset in restricted communication, but more likely to start deliberation by stating their first preference when unrestricted. Distributions of earnings are more inequitable when communication is restricted and the candidate preferred by the minority of voters is more likely to win. We also find that even restricted communication significantly increases participation and strategic voting by swing voters, above and beyond induced identity effects.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Wirtschaftssoziologie

Externe Organisation(en)

Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), New York University

Journal

The Economic Journal

Band

124

Seiten

F196-F225

ISSN

0013-0133

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12117

Publikationsdatum

02-2014

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504030 Wirtschaftssoziologie

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Economics and Econometrics

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/communication-and-voting-in-multiparty-elections-an-experimental-study(7609b155-2eed-47d5-86b7-0db363b6f7c9).html