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Voting experiments: Bandwagon voting or false-consensus effect?

Bischoff, Ivo; Egbert, Henrik - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2008

In an experiment designed to test for expressive voting, Tyran (JPubEc 2004) found a strong positive correlation … voters. This phenomenon can be due to bandwagon voting or a false consensus effect. The social science literature reports … both effects for voting decisions. Replicating Tyran’s experiment and adding new treatments, we provide evidence for a …

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Democratic Values Transmission

Brañas Garza, Pablo; Alejos, Espinosa; Paz, María; … - Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico … - 2013

This study addresses the issue of intergenerational transmission of democratic values embedded in social choice rules. We focus on a few rules which have been the focus of social choice theory: plurality, plurality with a runoff, majoritarian compromise, social compromise and Borda rule. We...

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Parochial altruism in inter-group conflicts

Abbink, Klaus; Brandts, Jordi; Herrmann, Benedikt; … - In: Economics Letters 117 (2012) 1, pp. 45-48

We investigate parochial altruism, the combination of in-group altruism and out-group hostility, in an experimental conflict game preceded by a prisoner’s dilemma. Our data are consistent with parochial altruism, but cannot be explained by in-group pro-sociality or out-group hostility alone.

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Can common ownership prevent the tragedy of the commons? : an experimental investigation

Puzon, Klarizze Anne Martin; Willinger, Marc - 2019

establish the following results. First, we find that voting provides more frequent protection and leads to higher protection …

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Cognitive Abilities and the Demand for Bad Policy

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

Rational choice theories assume that voters accurately assess the outcomes of policies. However, many important policies—such as regulating prices and introducing Pigouvian taxation—yield outcomes through indirect or equilibrium effects that may differ from their direct effects. Citizens may...

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Race and gender affinities in voting: Experimental evidence

Penney, Jeffrey; Tolley, Erin; Goodyear-Grant, Elizabeth - 2016

dimensions in voting behaviour. A number of phenomena regarding these affinities and their interactions are detailed and explored …

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Social information and bandwagon behavior in voting: An economic experiment

Bischoff, Ivo; Egbert, Henrik - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 34 (2013) C, pp. 270-284

importance of instrumental motives and – unlike the majority of previous experiments – find support for expressive voting motives …We present the first economic experiment on bandwagon behavior in voting. Subjects are given an individual endowment … that the voting behavior differs across treatments in a way that is consistent with bandwagon voting. They also confirm the …

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Cognitive Abilities and the Demand for Bad Policy

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

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Race and gender affinities in voting : experimental evidence

Penney, Jeffrey; Tolley, Erin; Goodyear-Grant, Elizabeth - 2016 - version 1.2

dimensions in voting behaviour. A number of phenomena regarding these affinities and their interactions are detailed and explored …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011567554

Cognitive abilities and the demand for bad policy

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

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