How the world votes: The political consequences of ballot design, innovation and manipulation

Reynolds, Andrew; Steenbergen, Marco R.

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2005.06.009

Cited by 96 publications

(49 citation statements)

References 32 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…These findings expand and complement previous research on the influence of information effects and cognitive heuristics on electoral outcomes (Bartels 1996;Lau and Redlawsk 2006;Reynolds and Steenbergen 2006) and reveal some unexpected potential consequences of adopting new voting systems.…”

Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 61%

“…Scholars have shown that the ease or difficulty of finding particular cues and their relative prominence can affect the nature and quality of the vote (Mondak 1993;Lau and Redlawsk 2006). For instance, political scientists have underscored that several features of the ballot design, such as layouts, colors, symbols, and the order in which candidates are listed, can modify voters' information-acquisition strategies and choice (Reynolds and Steenbergen 2006). In the same direction, usability research on voting technologies has found that slight variations in interfaces and procedures followed to browse political information across different devices may influence users' attitudes and actions (Herrnson et al 2008).…”

Section: The Potential Impact Of Voting Technologies On Electoral Outmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Assessing the Impact of Alternative Voting Technologies on Multi-Party Elections: Design Features, Heuristic Processing and Voter Choice

et al. 2010

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper analyzes the influence of alternative voting technologies on electoral outcomes in multi-party systems. Using data from a field experiment conducted during the 2005 legislative election in Argentina, we examine the role of information effects associated with alternative voting devices on the support for the competing parties. We find that differences in the type of information displayed and how it was presented across devices favored some parties to the detriment of others. The impact of voting technologies was found to be larger than in two-party systems, and could lead to changes in election results. We conclude that authorities in countries moving to adopt new voting systems should carefully take the potential partisan advantages induced by different technologies into account when evaluating their implementation.

show abstract

Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 61%

Section: The Potential Impact Of Voting Technologies On Electoral Outmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing the Impact of Alternative Voting Technologies on Multi-Party Elections: Design Features, Heuristic Processing and Voter Choice

et al. 2010

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Casting a vote for a single party is the most common ballot structure in single-member as well as multi-member districts in national parliamentary elections in democracies (Reynolds and Steenbergen 2006).…”

Section: The Experimentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effects of District Magnitude on Voting Behavior

Hix

Hortalà-Vallvé

Riambau

2017

The Journal of Politics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…For examples of observational analyses of partisan cues on ballots in established democracies, seeMeredith and Grissom (2010);Schaffner and Streb (2002); Shaffner, et al (2007); andWelch and Bledsoe (1986). For examples of experimental studies, seeBuckley, et al (2007);Klein and Baum (2001); andReynolds and Steenbergen (2006).…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Partisan Cues and Vote Choice in New Multiparty Systems

Conroy-Krutz

Moehler

Aguilar

2015

Comparative Political Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

There are numerous studies of the effects of partisan cues in developed democracies, but almost none on how they affect voting in new multiparty systems. This lacuna might stem from untested assumptions that partisan cues are un-influential where parties lack longstanding records as governors, ideological cores, and psychological bonds with citizens. Alternatively, we theorize that even in new multiparty systems, voters use partisan cues to assess candidates' potential performance, resource distribution, democratic credentials, and electoral viability. We test this theory through an experiment in which we varied inclusion of party identifiers on ballots in Uganda, where the multiparty system was only five years old. We find that partisan cues increased selection of major-party candidates over independents, straight-ticket ballots, and votes for copartisans. Our results challenge the common assumption that partisan affiliation is irrelevant to voters in new party systems. Partisan cues can influence political decision-making, even when party-systems are young.

show abstract

How the world votes: The political consequences of ballot design, innovation and manipulation

Cited by 96 publications

References 32 publications

Assessing the Impact of Alternative Voting Technologies on Multi-Party Elections: Design Features, Heuristic Processing and Voter Choice

Assessing the Impact of Alternative Voting Technologies on Multi-Party Elections: Design Features, Heuristic Processing and Voter Choice

The Effects of District Magnitude on Voting Behavior

Partisan Cues and Vote Choice in New Multiparty Systems

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About