The objective of this study was to test for the effect of consequentiality on the probability of a respondent opting out of voting in a stated preference survey. We find that respondents who believe the survey is inconsequential are more likely to opt out than to vote ‘yes’ in both...

We question whether RMC surveys satisfy these requirements in three key ways: 1) Is casting multiple votes on a single issue credible? 2) Is there a credible RMC decision rule? And 3) Is the assumption of independence across choice sets credible? We address each of these questions then offer...

We test the hypothesis that respondents stating divergent reasons for choice uncertainty differ in their probability to vote yes in a CV setting. We introduce the use of a follow-up question used to classify uncertain respondents according to reason for uncertainty. Results indicate that...