Bandwagon Effects and Two-Party Majority Voting.

Empirical studies of voting behavior provide evidence of bandwagon effects. Some voters, believing that a particular candidate will win, vote for this candidate even though they prefer the alternative. This paper provides a non-expected utility explanation of such behavior by positing that voters may be averse to the uncertainty associated with an election. Copyright 1998 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

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Year of publication:	1998
Authors:	Hong, Chew Soo ; Konrad, Kai A
Published in:	Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. - Springer. - Vol. 16.1998, 2, p. 165-72
Publisher:	Springer

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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