Communication and Voting in Multi-party Elections: An Experimental Study

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Kittel, Bernhard; Luhan, Wolfgang; Morton, Rebecca
• 署名单位: University of Vienna; Ruhr University Bochum; New York University
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12117
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: F196-F225
• 关键词: information; deliberation; uncertainty; polls

摘要

We investigate communication and costly voting in multi-party election experiments. Turnout is consistently lower across electorate communication as compared with 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.