The <i>EuroVotePlus</i> experiment

Laslier, Jean‐François; Blais, André; Bol, Damien; Golder, Sona N.; Harfst, Philipp; Stephenson, Laura B.; Straeten, Karine Van der

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“…As noted in Laslier et al (2015), left-leaning voters are over-represented in our sample. Only a bit more than 30% of the 1116 subjects voted for a right wing or centre-right pan-European list (i.e.…”

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Addressing Europe’s democratic deficit: An experimental evaluation of the pan-European district proposal

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Harfst

Blais

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European Union Politics

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Many academics and commentators argue that Europe is suffering from a democratic deficit. An interesting proposal that has been put forward to address this problem is to elect some members of the European parliament in a pan-European district. In this article, we evaluate this proposal using an online experiment, in which thousands of Europeans voted on a pan-European ballot we created. We find that the voting European Union Politics 0(0) 1-21 Downloaded from behaviour of European citizens would be strongly affected by the presence or absence of candidates from their own country on the lists. If a pan-European district is created, our findings provide an argument in favour of using a closed-list ballot and establishing a maximum number of candidates from each country on the lists.

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Section: The Findingsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Addressing Europe’s democratic deficit: An experimental evaluation of the pan-European district proposal

Bol

Harfst

Blais

et al. 2016

European Union Politics

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“…It is evident that many factors affect this research area, and recurrently, COMSOC and voting affect modern society. [4] or in Europe [5], liquid democracy [6], 'Brexit' voting behaviour [7] Crowdsourcing [8], demographic migrations [9] Collective intelligence [10], social network and their impacts on voting [11], social welfare [12] Technological factors…”

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Computational Social Choice and challenges оf voting in multi-agent systems

Dodevska¹

2019

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The presence of big data, online systems, collaborations of remote agents, distributed knowledge, social media interaction, and generally, digital globalization, changes the way how people make decisions, and especially those of collective importance. We face numerous challenges of human and algorithm voting in multi-agent socio-technical environments. Computational Social Choice (COMSOC) has the tendency to join several separately studied fields. The author summarizes recent efforts that testify the importance of COMSOC and voting. This paper gives insights into the nature of voting in multi-agent systems (MAS) and related challenges, from both computational and social aspects. With respect to the challenging aspects of voting and specifics of MAS, the following directions for future research in the field of COMSOC are suggested: an integrated approach to voting, iterative voting, a voting argumentation framework, and combinatorial voting.

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“…1 The understanding on the contextual and individual factors of preferential voting is thin, and this article seeks to flesh it out. We also contribute to an ever-growing field of experimental and quasi-experimental analysis of the impact of electoral systems and, in particular, voting rules (Laslier and van der Straeten, 2008;Blais et al, 2011Blais et al, , 2012van der Straeten et al, 2013;Laslier et al, 2015;Baujard et al, 2014;Blumenau et al, 2017;Golder et al, 2017), which can provide empirically robust and internally valid insights about the nature and magnitude of that impact. We do this by reporting an experiment which consisted in a exit poll with different ballot papers.…”

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What explains preferential voting? A field experiment in Portugal

Pereira

Lobo

2020

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What explains preferential voting? A field experiment in Portugal. This article analyzes the predictors of preferential voting in flexible list systems, focusing on political sophistication, voting rules and district size. It relies on a field experiment carried out in Portugal on the 2015 legislative election day. We found that the effect of district size depends on the nature of the voting rules introduced (optional or compulsory preferential voting). Also, political interest tends to lose its significance when preferential voting is compulsory. Thus, preferential voting does not constitute an obstacle for those with less political sophistication to express a vote, especially when the voting rules make preferential voting compulsory. keywords: preferential voting; field experiment; electoral behavior; electoral system. O que explica o voto preferencial? Estudo experimental nas eleições de 2015 em Portugal. O presente artigo analisa os fatores explicativos do voto preferencial em sistemas de lista flexível, com enfoque na sofisticação política, regras de votação e magnitude do círculo eleitoral. Baseia-se num estudo experimental de campo realizado em Portugal no dia das eleições legislativas de 2015. Verificou-se que o impacto da magnitude do círculo eleitoral depende das regras de votação utilizadas, que tornam o voto preferencial obrigatório ou opcional. Para além disso, o interesse pela política tende a perder a sua significância estatística quando o voto preferencial é obrigatório. Portanto, o voto preferencial não constitui um obstáculo ao voto por parte dos cidadãos com menores níveis de sofisticação política, especialmente quando as regras fazem com que a expressão de preferências seja obrigatória. palavras-chave: voto preferencial; estudo experimental; comportamento eleitoral; sistema eleitoral.

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The EuroVotePlus experiment

Cited by 20 publications

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Addressing Europe’s democratic deficit: An experimental evaluation of the pan-European district proposal

Addressing Europe’s democratic deficit: An experimental evaluation of the pan-European district proposal

Computational Social Choice and challenges оf voting in multi-agent systems

What explains preferential voting? A field experiment in Portugal

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