Individual Behavior under Evaluative Voting. A comparison between laboratory and In Situ experiments

Antoinette Baujard, Herrade Igersheim, Frédéric Gavrel, Jean-François Laslier and Isabelle Lebon

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Abstract: This chapter compares two experimental methodologies for studying how individual voting behavior changes with respect to the choice of voting rule. We concentrate on different versions of Evaluative Voting. The results are based on two types of experimental protocol: a classical laboratory experiment with monetarily-induced preferences, and an in situ experiment run in parallel with the 2012 French presidential election. In the laboratory, individuals use the different rating scales in similar ways; but this is not the case in situ. The difference may be due to the different ways subjects interpret the proposed scales (in particular negative grades) when they concern real candidates. Finally, the chapter discusses what each method can teach us about voter behavior. Notably, we highlight behavior that is in contradiction with the tenets of strict rationality. This phenomenon, which is very widely observed in situ, and where it may be explained by a motive to express oneself, is also observed in the lab, where it is still to be explained.

Keywords: Voting Theory; Presidential election 2012; Field Experiment; In Situ Experiment; Laboratory Experiment; Evaluative Voting; Approval Voting; Strategic Behavior; 2012; Élections présidentielles; France (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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Published in André Blais; Jean-François Laslier; Karine Van der Straeten. Voting experiments, Part IV, Springer, pp. 257-269, 2016, 978-3-319-40571-1 978-3-319-40573-5. ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-40573-5_13⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40573-5_13

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