Polarization and inefficient information aggregation under strategic voting

Tajika, Tomoya

doi:10.1007/s00355-020-01270-2

Soc Choice Welf

2020

DOI: 10.1007/s00355-020-01270-2

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Polarization and inefficient information aggregation under strategic voting

Tomoya Tajika

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Expressive voting versus information avoidance: experimental evidence in the context of climate change mitigation

Momsen

Ohndorf

2022

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We theoretically and experimentally investigate the effect of self-serving information avoidance on moral bias in democratic and individual decisions in the context of climate change mitigation. Subjects choose between two allocations that differ in payoffs and contributions to climate change mitigation. We vary the observability of the environmental contribution, as well as the decision context associated with different levels of pivotality. If the contribution is directly observable, we find evidence for lower pivotality leading to higher levels of “green” decisions, as predicted by the low-cost theory of voting. This effect disappears if subjects can avoid information on the contribution. Instead, we find evidence for the exploitation of moral wiggle room via information avoidance in larger democracies as well as in the consumption context. Our results indicate that information avoidance substitutes expressive voting as an instrument to manage cognitive dissonance on the part of the voter. Hence, moral biases in elections might be less likely than previously thought.

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Expressive voting versus information avoidance: experimental evidence in the context of climate change mitigation

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Ohndorf

2022

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Voting on tricky questions

Tajika

2022

Games and Economic Behavior

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Polarization and inefficient information aggregation under strategic voting

Cited by 2 publications

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Expressive voting versus information avoidance: experimental evidence in the context of climate change mitigation

Expressive voting versus information avoidance: experimental evidence in the context of climate change mitigation

Voting on tricky questions

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