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 …

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 …

In an experiment designed to test for expressive voting, Tyran (JPubEc 2004) found a strong positive correlation … voting decisions in the social science literature. Redoing Tyran's experiment and adding new treatments, we provide evidence …

In an experiment designed to test for expressive voting, Tyran (JPubEc 2004) found a strong positive correlation … voting decisions in the social science literature. Redoing Tyran's experiment and adding new treatments, we provide evidence …

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 …