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Palfrey, Thomas R. and Pogorelskiy, Kirill (2019) Communication among voters benefits the majority party. The Economic Journal, 129 (618). pp. 961-990. doi:10.1111/ecoj.12563 ISSN 0013-0133.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12563
Abstract
How does communication among voters affect turnout? In a laboratory experiment, subjects, divided into two competing parties, choose between costly voting and abstaining. Pre-play communication treatments, relative to the No Communication control, are Public Communication (subjects exchange public messages through computers) and Party Communication (messages are public within one's own party). Communication benefits the majority party by increasing its turnout margin, hence its winning probability. Party communication increases turnout; public communication decreases total turnout with a low voting cost. With communication, there is no support for Nash equilibrium and limited consistency with correlated equilibrium.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | The Economic Journal | ||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0013-0133 | ||||||||
Official Date: | February 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 129 | ||||||||
Number: | 618 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 961-990 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/ecoj.12563 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 January 2018 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 17 November 2019 | ||||||||
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