Biases in elections with well-informed voters : Evidence from public voting for football awards

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ssqu.13216" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ssqu.13216</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13216" target="_blank" >10.1111/ssqu.13216</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Biases in elections with well-informed voters : Evidence from public voting for football awards

Original language description

Objectives How much does group membership influence voting behavior? This article adds to existing work by considering a novel context where voting is public and voters are well-informed. Methods The article analyzes public votes in a prominent award for the best football player in the world. It uses ordered probit regressions to assess the extent to which votes by players, coaches, and journalists are related to national, regional, cultural, racial, and religious affinities between voters and candidates controlling for measures of player performance and celebrity. Results The estimates indicate that while player performance does matter, a number of group-based characteristics continue to influence voting. Some of these effects appear to be rooted in incentives—a tendency to vote for co-nationals and teammates—but others—such as a tendency to vote based on geographical, racial, and religious similarities—are rooted more in group affinities. Conclusions The analysis provides relatively strong support for the group-based theory of democracy championed by Achen and Bartels as opposed to a theory of democracy founded on individual rational choice. The specific case considered suggests that more attention should be given to the composition of juries that choose the winners of prizes.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Social Science Quarterly

ISSN

0038-4941

e-ISSN

1540-6237

Volume of the periodical

103

Issue of the periodical within the volume

7

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

1551-1571

UT code for WoS article

000871245100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85140395058