Citizen Participation in Experiments on Voting Rules

La participation des citoyens aux expérimentations sur les modes de scrutin

Antoinette Baujard () and Jean-François Laslier ()
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Antoinette Baujard: UJM EPE - Université Jean Monnet (EPSCPE), GATE Lyon Saint-Étienne - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon - Saint-Etienne - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne - EM - EMLyon Business School - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Jean-François Laslier: CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, PJSE - Paris Jourdan Sciences Economiques - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris, PSE - Paris School of Economics - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris

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Abstract: In situ experimentations provide opportunities for exchanges between eesearchers and citizens. This article describes their potential impact on research regarding political studies and voting rules in particular. It comments the citizens perception of these experiments, and which social expectations they raise. It also illustrates two cases for which the active participation of voters made research questions evolve: firstly, the importance of expressive voting for voters, and secondly, the forms and challenges of understanding and explaining voting rules. These cases all uncover the prominence of voters' agency, and draw attention on the need for scientists' axiological neutrality in political studies.

Keywords: agency; voting rules; in situ experiments; vote; participatory science (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-03
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Published in Revue Economique, 2025, Vol. 76 (5), pp.839-860. ⟨10.3917/reco.765.0839⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/reco.765.0839

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