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Social information and bandwagon behaviour in voting: An economic experiment

Bischoff, Ivo; Egbert, Henrik - 2010

We present an economic experiment on the impact of social information on voter behaviour and find strong support for … bandwagon behaviour in voting decisions. In total, 418 subjects participated in the experiment. Bandwagon behaviour is found …

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Acceptance of collective decisions: An experimental study using the mind game and scales of short-run affective state

Bischoff, Ivo; Madias, Konstantinos; Soyalp, Levent; … - 2024

We run an experiment on the impact of involvement and outcome favorability on the acceptance of collective decisions …

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News, Emotions, and Policy Views on Immigration

Manzoni, Elena; Murard, Elie; Quercia, Simone; Tonini, Sara - 2024

information? We address these questions using a survey experiment in Italy, which randomly exposes around 7,000 participants to (i …

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Cognitive Abilities and the Demand for Bad Policy

Nunnari, Salvatore; Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini, Aldo - 2024

simple theoretical framework and an experiment to show that enhanced cognitive abilities may lead to better policy choices …

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Motivated political reasoning: The formation of belief-value constellations

Barron, Kai; Becker, Anna; Huck, Steffen - 2021

process of motivated political reasoning in a preregistered online experiment with a nationally representative sample of 1 …

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Expressive Voting vs. Self-Serving Ignorance

Momsen, Katharina; Ohndorf, Markus - 2020

We experimentally examine the effect of self-serving information avoidance on democratic and individual decisions in the context of climate change mitigation. Subjects need to choose between two allocations which differ in own payoffs and contributions to carbon offsets. In a between-subjects...

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Cognitive Abilities and the Demand for Bad Policy

Nunnari, Salvatore; Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini, Aldo - 2024

simple theoretical framework and an experiment to show that enhanced cognitive abilities may lead to better policy choices …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015061950

Motivated political reasoning: On the emergence of belief-value constellations

Barron, Kai; Becker, Anna; Huck, Steffen - In: European Economic Review 172 (2025)

contributing to the polarization of factual beliefs. We document these findings in a pre-registered online experiment with a …

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Why Do Committees Work?

Breitmoser, Yves; Valasek, Justin - 2023

We report on the results of an experiment designed to disentangle behavioral biases in information aggregation of …

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Voting experiments: bandwagon voting or false-consensus effect?

Bischoff, Ivo; Egbert, Henrik - 2008

In an experiment designed to test for expressive voting, Tyran (JPubEc 2004) found a strong positive correlation … both effects for voting decisions. Replicating Tyran's experiment and adding new treatments, we provide evidence for a …

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