relation: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/23224/ title: Measuring Perceptions of Candidate Viability in Voting Experiments creator: Blais, André creator: Foucault, Martial creator: Labbé St-Vincent, Simon creator: Laslier, Jean-François creator: Sauger, Nicolas creator: Van Der Straeten, Karine subject: B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE description: 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. publisher: Springer contributor: Blais, André contributor: Laslier, Jean-François contributor: Van Der Straeten, Karine date: 2016-09-04 type: Book Section type: NonPeerReviewed identifier: Blais, André , Foucault, Martial , Labbé St-Vincent, Simon, Laslier, Jean-François , Sauger, Nicolas and Van Der Straeten, Karine (2016) Measuring Perceptions of Candidate Viability in Voting Experiments. In: Voting Experiments Blais, André, Laslier, Jean-François and Van Der Straeten, Karine (eds.) Springer. Chapter 4. pp. 287-302. ISBN 978-3-319-40573-5 relation: http://tse-fr.eu/pub/31567 relation: 10.1007/978-3-319-40573-5_15 identifier: 10.1007/978-3-319-40573-5_15 doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-40573-5_15 language: en