Pivotality and Responsibility Attribution in Sequential Voting

Björn Bartling, Urs Fischbacher and Simeon Schudy

No 2014-01, Working Paper Series of the Department of Economics, University of Konstanz from Department of Economics, University of Konstanz

Abstract: Are people blamed for being pivotal if they implement an unpopular outcome in a sequential voting process? We conduct an experimental voting game and analyze how pivotality affects responsibility attribution by parties who can be negatively affected by the voting outcome. We measure responsibility attribution by assigned punishment points and find that pivotal decision makers are blamed significantly more than non-pivotal decision makers. Moreover, we find that some voters avoid being pivotal by voting strategically to delegate the pivotal vote to subsequent decision makers.

Keywords: Pivotality; voting; responsibility attribution; blame; delegation; experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 C92 D63 D71 D72 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 46 pages
Date: 2014-01-23
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