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We present an economic experiment on the impact of social information on voter behaviour and find strong support for … bandwagon behaviour in voting decisions. In total, 418 subjects participated in the experiment. Bandwagon behaviour is found … among both male and female subjects. -- bandwagon behaviour ; social information ; voting motives ; economic experiment …
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experiment among influential economic experts working in more than 100 countries and use the 2020 US presidential election as a … quasi-natural experiment to identify the effect of the US incumbent change on global macroeconomic expectations. We find …
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We experimentally examine the effect of self-serving information avoidance on democratic and individual decisions in the context of climate change mitigation. Subjects need to choose between two allocations which differ in own payoffs and contributions to carbon offsets. In a between-subjects...
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little or no effect of automated calls. We establish this finding in a large field experiment in a targeted, partisan get …
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We analyze the results of a large-scale experiment wherein subjects participate in a hypothetical primary election and …
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advertising in electoral races with more than two candidates with a large scale field experiment during an electoral campaign for … mayor in Italy and a survey experiment in a fictitious mayoral campaign. In our field experiment, we find a strong, positive … experiment, which creates a controlled environment with no ideological components nor strategic voting. The negative ad has no …
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One argument against secret ballots is that such procedures lead to more selfish voting behavior and that public voting can increase prosocial voting and the likelihood of prosocial outcomes when voters are not subject to intimidation and coercion from outside interests. We investigate this...
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information against her preferences. In an online experiment, the subjects have to vote on either a safe or a risky payment of the …
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mobilization. We study this by leveraging a natural experiment in Japan, in which the timing of a municipal election is as …
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little or no effect of automated calls. We establish this finding in a large field experiment in a targeted, partisan get …
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