Measuring Perceptions of Candidate Viability in Voting Experiments

Simon Labbé-St-Vincent, André Blais (), Martial Foucault (), Jean-François Laslier, Nicolas Sauger () and Karine Van der Straeten ()
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Simon Labbé-St-Vincent: UdeM - Université de Montréal
André Blais: UdeM - Université de Montréal
Martial Foucault: CEVIPOF - Centre de recherches politiques de Sciences Po (Sciences Po, CNRS) - Sciences Po - Sciences Po - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Nicolas Sauger: CEE - Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (Sciences Po, CNRS) - Sciences Po - Sciences Po - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: The chapter examines perceptions of candidate viability in a series of voting experiments conducted in Lille, Montreal, and Paris. We show that: participants in these experiments are able to distinguish viable and non-viable candidates; these perceptions become clearer over time; and they affect vote choice. Moreover, we show that voters' behavior is unaffected by whether they are asked (or not) about their perceptions of candidates' chances of winning. We conclude that, for studying in details the determinants of voters' choices, there is much to be gained in measuring, in a simple and direct manner, participants' perceptions in voting experiments.

Keywords: Voting; Candidate viability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-09
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Published in André Blais; Jean-François Laslier; Karine Van der Straeten. Voting Experiments, pp.287-302, 2016, 9783319405711. ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-40573-5_15⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40573-5_15

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