How to Survey About Electoral Turnout? The Efficacy of the Face-Saving Response Items in 19 Different Contexts

Morin-Chassé, Alexandre; Bol, Damien; Stephenson, Laura B.; St-Vincent, Simon Labbé

doi:10.1017/psrm.2016.31

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“…Response categories were no (0), only when necessary (1), and yes (2). "Only when necessary" was added to allow "face-saving" responses and gather more accurate measures (Daoust et al, 2020;Morin-Chassé et al, 2017). We combined the responses to the four questions into a single index for analysis (α = .63).…”

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To Follow or Not to Follow: Social Norms and Civic Duty during a Pandemic

2020

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The outbreak of COVID-19 has put substantial pressure on individuals to adapt and change their behaviours. As the hope of a vaccine remains at least a year away, everyone is urged to take action to slow the spread of the virus. Thus, “flattening the curve” has become vital in preventing medical systems from being overrun, and it relies on massive collective action by citizens to follow specific public health measures such as physical distancing, hand washing, and physical isolation for vulnerable individuals. Despite the recommendations, the public has often been confronted with the reality that some individuals are not respecting them, including elected officials (Aguilar, 2020).

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To Follow or Not to Follow: Social Norms and Civic Duty during a Pandemic

2020

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“…Studies have focused on nonvoters, to account for who is overreporting (Silver, Anderson, and Abramson 1986; Granberg and Holmberg 1991; Brenner 2012), and techniques to reduce overreporting (Abelson, Loftus, and Greenwald 1992; Morin-Chassé et al. 2017). For instance, Karp and Brockington (2005) explore predictors of overreporting across five countries and find that overreporting is positively associated with turnout and positively associated with predictors of voting.…”

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Bias in Self-reported Voting and How it Distorts Turnout Models: Disentangling Nonresponse Bias and Overreporting Among Danish Voters

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Hansen²,

Hansen³

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Most nonexperimental studies of voter turnout rely on survey data. However, surveys overestimate turnout because of (1) nonresponse bias and (2) overreporting. We investigate this possibility using a rich dataset of Danish voters, which includes validated turnout indicators from administrative data for both respondents and nonrespondents, as well as respondents’ self-reported voting from the Danish National Election Studies. We show that both nonresponse bias and overreporting contribute significantly to overestimations of turnout. Further, we use covariates from the administrative data available for both respondents and nonrespondents to demonstrate that both factors also significantly bias the predictors of turnout. In our case, we find that nonresponse bias and overreporting masks a gender gap of two and a half percentage points in women’s favor as well as a gap of 25 percentage points in ethnic Danes’ favor compared with Danes of immigrant heritage.

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“…These steps should loosen the norm around a desirable response and make it more acceptable for respondents to admit non-compliance with the desirable outcome. Such an approach has been applied to topics such as voter turnout (Morin-Chassé et al 2017) where there is a clear norm that voting is the right thing to do, and recently to the COVID-19 pandemic by Daoust et al (2020). This latter work showed that face-saving strategies can increase the proportion of citizens who self-report non-compliance with a range of public health preventive measures in Canada.…”

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Face-Saving Strategies Increase Self-Reported Non-Compliance with COVID-19 Preventive Measures: Experimental Evidence from 12 Countries

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Studies of citizens' compliance with COVID-19 preventive measures routinely rely on survey data. While essential, public health restrictions provide clear signals of what is socially desirable in this context, creating a potential source of response bias in selfreported measures of compliance. In this research, we examine whether the results of a face-saving-strategy that was recently proposed by Daoust et al. (2020) to loosen this constraint are generalizable across twelve countries, and whether the treatment effect varies across subgroups. Our findings show that the face-saving strategy is a very useful tool in every country included, increasing respondents' proclivity to report noncompliance by 9 to 16 percentage points. This effect holds for different subgroups based on gender, age and education. We conclude that the inclusion of this strategy should be the new standard for survey research that aims to provide crucial data on the current pandemic.

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How to Survey About Electoral Turnout? The Efficacy of the Face-Saving Response Items in 19 Different Contexts

Cited by 31 publications

References 24 publications

To Follow or Not to Follow: Social Norms and Civic Duty during a Pandemic

To Follow or Not to Follow: Social Norms and Civic Duty during a Pandemic

Bias in Self-reported Voting and How it Distorts Turnout Models: Disentangling Nonresponse Bias and Overreporting Among Danish Voters

Face-Saving Strategies Increase Self-Reported Non-Compliance with COVID-19 Preventive Measures: Experimental Evidence from 12 Countries

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