Arbeitspapier
The effect of information on voting behaviour
This paper investigates how information affect voting behaviour. There exist a large literature suggesting that uninformed voters can use informational shortcuts or cues to vote as if they were informed. This paper tests this hypothesis using unique Swedish individual survey data on the preferences of both politicians and voters. I find that uninformed voters are significantly worse than informed voters at voting for their most preferred politicians. This suggests that uninformed voters can not make up for their lack of information using shortcuts. Furthermore, the errors uninformed voters make do not cancel out in large elections. Estimates suggest that the ruling majorities would have switched in almost 5% of Swedish municipalities had all voters been fully informed. The effects are estimated with both parametric and nonparametric estimation techniques.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 2009:14
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Analysis of Collective Decision-Making: General
Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty: General
State and Local Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
- Thema
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Voting behavior
Citizen candidates
Information
Cues
Wahlverhalten
Information
Kommunalwahl
Schätzung
Schweden
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Nordin, Mattias
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Uppsala University, Department of Economics
- (wo)
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Uppsala
- (wann)
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2009
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-108606
- Letzte Aktualisierung
- 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Nordin, Mattias
- Uppsala University, Department of Economics
Entstanden
- 2009
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