Voting Experiments

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • André Blais, Jean-François Laslier, Karine Van der Straeten

   Pages 1-16

3. Processing Information About Candidates/Voting Correctly

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Deciding Correctly: Variance in the Effective Use of Party Cues

      • Jennifer L. Merolla, Laura B. Stephenson, Elizabeth J. Zechmeister

      Pages 19-42

   3. The Company Makes the Feast. Party Constellations, Campaign Context and Issue Voting in Multi-party Systems

      • Konstantin Vössing, Till Weber

      Pages 43-66

   4. Candidate Extremity, Information Environments, and Affective Polarization: Three Experiments Using Dynamic Process Tracing

      • Mona S. Kleinberg, Richard R. Lau

      Pages 67-87

   5. Common Knowledge and Voter Coordination: Experimental Evidence from Mali

      • Jessica Gottlieb

      Pages 89-113

4. Impact of Polls on the Decision to Vote or to Abstain

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115

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   2. Are People More or Less Inclined to Vote When Aggregate Turnout Is High?

      • André Blais, Rafael Hortala-Vallve

      Pages 117-125

   3. Visibility and Sanctions: The Social Norm of Voting in the Lab

      • Aina Gallego, Carol Galais, Marc Guinjoan, Jean-Michel Lavoie, André Blais

      Pages 127-146

5. Impact of Polls on Candidate Choice: Bandwagon Effect and Strategic Voting

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147

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   2. Experiments on the Effects of Opinion Polls and Implications for Laws Banning Pre-election Polling

      • Todd Donovan, Shaun Bowler

      Pages 149-169

   3. Polls, Partisanship, and Voter Decision-Making: An Experimental Analysis

      • Shane P. Singh, Jason Roy, Patrick Fournier

      Pages 171-189

   4. Coalitions, Coordination and Electoral Choice: A Lab Experimental Study of Strategic Voting

      • Annika Fredén

      Pages 191-213

   5. Patterns of Strategic Voting in Run-Off Elections

      • Karine Van der Straeten, Jean-François Laslier, André Blais

      Pages 215-236

   6. Strategic Voting and Personality Traits

      • Cengiz Erisen, André Blais

      Pages 237-254

6. Methodological Debate and Innovations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 255-255

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   2. Individual Behavior Under Evaluative Voting: A Comparison Between Laboratory and In Situ Experiments

      • Herrade Igersheim, Antoinette Baujard, Frédéric Gavrel, Jean-François Laslier, Isabelle Lebon

      Pages 257-269

   3. Recruiting for Laboratory Voting Experiments: Exploring the (Potential) Sampling Bias

      • Damien Bol, Simon Labbé St-Vincent, Jean-Michel Lavoie

      Pages 271-286

   4. Measuring Perceptions of Candidate Viability in Voting Experiments

      • Simon Labbé St-Vincent, André Blais, Martial Foucault, Jean-François Laslier, Nicolas Sauger, Karine Van der Straeten

      Pages 287-302

This book presents a collection of papers illustrating the variety of "experimental" methodologies used to study voting. Experimental methods include laboratory experiments in the tradition of political psychology, laboratory experiments with monetary incentives, in the economic tradition, survey experiments (varying survey, question wording, framing or content), as well as various kinds of field experimentation. Topics include the behavior of voters (in particular turnout, vote choice, and strategic voting), the behavior of parties and candidates, and the comparison of electoral rules.

• Elections
• Experimental economics
• Field experiments
• Laboratory experiments
• Survey experiments
• Voting

“Volume includes enough experimental research to make readers think twice about a decision to move to a multiparty state. … book has much to teach readers who hope to preserve their self-interest by contemplating a move from a dual-party system to a multi-party system. Contributors to Voting Experiments have defined most of their theoretical concepts clearly enough for readers who are not familiar with the disciplinary language found in political science and economics to be able to follow their arguments.” (Theresa A. Thorkildsen, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 62 (11), March, 2017)

• Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada

  André Blais

• Paris School of Economics, Paris, France

  Jean-François Laslier

• Toulouse School of Economics, Toulouse, France

  Karine Van der Straeten

Karine Van Der Straeten, Toulouse School of Economics, CNRS, Toulouse, France

Jean-François Laslier, Paris School of Economics, CNRS, Paris, France

André Blais, Université de Montréal, Département de science politique, Montréal, QC, Canada

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