Cultural voting: The Eurovision Song Contest

Victor Ginsburgh and Abdul Noury ()

No 2005006, LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)

Abstract: We analyze the voting behavior and ratings of judges in a popular song contest held every year in Europe. The dataset makes it possible to analyze the determinants of success, and gives a rare opportunity to run a direct test of vote trading, or logrolling. Though the votes cast may appear as resulting from logrolling, we show that they are rather driven by linguistic and cultural proximities between singers and voting countries.

Keywords: logrolling; voting behavior; popular music; contests (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 Z10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-02
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