RT Book, Section
SR 00
ID 10.1007/978-3-319-40573-5_15
A1 Blais, André
A1 Foucault, Martial
A1 Labbé St-Vincent, Simon
A1 Laslier, Jean-François
A1 Sauger, Nicolas
A1 Van Der Straeten, Karine
T1 Measuring Perceptions of Candidate Viability in Voting Experiments
YR 2016
FD 2016-09-04
SP 287
OP 302
AB 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.
A2 Blais, André
A2 Laslier, Jean-François
A2 Van Der Straeten, Karine
T2 Voting Experiments
PB Springer
SN 978-3-319-40573-5
AV Published
LK https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/23224/
UL http://tse-fr.eu/pub/31567