Voting experiments: Bandwagon voting or false-consensus effect?
In an experiment designed to test for expressive voting, Tyran (JPubEc 2004) found a strong positive correlation between the participants’ approval for a proposal to donate money for charity and their expected approval rate for fellow voters. This phenomenon can be due to bandwagon voting or a fa...
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Veröffentlicht in: | MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics (Band 25-2008) |
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Format: | Arbeit |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Philipps-Universität Marburg
2008
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Zusammenfassung: | In an experiment designed to test for expressive voting, Tyran (JPubEc 2004) found a strong
positive correlation between the participants’ approval for a proposal to donate money for
charity and their expected approval rate for fellow 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 false consensus effect but find no support for bandwagon voting. |
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ISSN: | 1867-3678 |
DOI: | 10.17192/es2023.0211 |