Ideology is widely considered to be an important factor in shaping policy outcomes and in influencing election outcomes. We propose a theory of the coalition-directed vote. The argument suggests that voters anticipate the post-election bargains negotiated among potential members of the governing...

We implemented two experiments that are designed to recover the responsibility attribution reasoning of individuals. The first endeavor is a lab experiment designed to identify what decision maker attributes, of the actors in a collective decision making group, affect responsibility attribution....