Stopping the Evil or Settling for the Lesser Evil : An Experimental Study of Costly Voting with Negative Payoffs in a TRS Electoral System

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40585-8_9" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40585-8_9</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40585-8_9" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-319-40585-8_9</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Stopping the Evil or Settling for the Lesser Evil : An Experimental Study of Costly Voting with Negative Payoffs in a TRS Electoral System
Original language description
The strategic voting across families of various electoral systems is often depicted as “settling for lesser evil” (e.g. Cox, 1997, Gschwend, 2004) in order to prevent the worst outcome of elections. In this paper we experimentally (13 sessions with 18-30 participants, 546 voting situations) explore the degree of strategic voting (as compared to non-voting) framed in situations with (non-compulsory) costly voting where voters face outcomes with positive and negative payoffs (“stopping the evil” framing) and/or with solely negative payoffs (“settling for lesser evil” framing). We explore voters’ decisions in rather complex environment of the two-round electoral system, with symmetric amount of private information about the preferences of electorate available to them and show that voters’ behavior does differ markedly in both the situations. The results have implications for the representation and democracy.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GA13-20548S" target="_blank" >GA13-20548S: Experimental research of electoral behavior and decision-making in highly personalised elections</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Recent Trends in Social Systems : Quantitative Theories and Quantitative Models
ISBN
9783319405834
Number of pages of the result
15
Pages from-to
89-103
Number of pages of the book
426
Publisher name
Springer
Place of publication
Heidelberg
UT code for WoS chapter
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