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