Strategic, Sincere and Heuristic Voting under Four Election Rules: An Experimental Study

André Blais, Jean-François Laslier, Nicolas Sauger and Karine Van der Straeten ()

No 559, IDEI Working Papers from Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse

Abstract: We report on laboratory experiments on voting. In a setting where subjects have single-peaked preferences we find that the rational choice theory provides very good predictions of actual individual behavior in one-round and approval voting elections, but fares poorly in explaining vote choice under two-round elections. We conclude that voters behave strategically as far as strategic computations are not too demanding, in which case they rely on simple heuristics (in two-round elections) or they just vote sincerely (in single transferable vote elections).

Date: 2009-07
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