Experimental Evidence on Expressive Voting

Autor(en)
Jean-Robert Tyran, Alexander K. Wagner
Abstrakt

Standard economic reasoning assumes that people vote instrumentally, i.e., that the sole motivation to vote is to influence the outcome of an election. In contrast, voting is expressive if voters derive utility from the very act of expressing support for one of the options by voting for it, and this utility is independent of whether the vote affects the outcome. This paper surveys experimental tests of expressive voting with a particular
focus on the low-cost theory of expressive voting. The evidence for the low-cost theory of expressive voting is mixed.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Wiener Zentrum für Experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung
Externe Organisation(en)
Centre for Economic and Policy Research, University of Copenhagen
Anzahl der Seiten
23
Publikationsdatum
2016
ÖFOS 2012
502024 Öffentliche Wirtschaft, 502045 Verhaltensökonomie
Link zum Portal
https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/experimental-evidence-on-expressive-voting(fd70038f-dd07-47ee-b1af-1c3ac30ea8b9).html