This paper examines Hispanic voting behavior in the 2004 Presidential election. Our research makes a significant contribution to the literature on Hispanic politics, as this is the first study to apply theories of issue and economic voting to a nationwide sample of Hispanic voters. We demonstrate that, similar to Anglos, issues and ideology were highly influential in the vote choice of Hispanic...

Bendor, Diermeier, and Ting (2003) develop a behavioral alternative to rational choice models of turnout. However, the assumption they make about the way individuals adjust their probability of voting biases their model towards their main result of significant turnout in large populations. Moreover, the assumption causes individuals to engage in casual voting (sometimes people vote and sometime...

Despite the vast literature on economic voting, spanning decades, there is little agreement on the influence of economic considerations on approval of the government and vote choice. Part of the reason for this disagreement is the inherent complexity of the political environment. To isolate the effects of economic considerations we develop a laboratory experiment that allows us to vary these co...

Abstract Corporate boards, experts panels, parliaments, cabinets, and even nations all take important decisions as a group. Selecting an efficient decision rule to aggregate individual opinions is paramount the quality of these groups. In our experiment we measure revealed preferences over efficiency several rules. Our results show that: (1) theoretically optimal not robust simple majority voti...

In June 2020, in the midst of Covid-19 pandemic, Malawians went to polls and voted replace incumbent government. Much like other natural disasters, pandemic accompanying economic political shocks had potential shake voters’ confidence government, reduce turnout, and/or support for if voters associated them with ills pandemic. this paper, we examine extent which Coronavirus influenced Malawi’s 2...

Abstract How might irrelevant events infiltrate voting decisions? The current research introduces a new mechanism—regulatory focus—by which incidental environmental factors can affect vote choice. Regulatory focus theory proposes that there are two fundamental psychological orientations in how people navigate their worlds: A prevention tunes cognition towards security, safety, protection, and r...

Does it Help or Hurt Kerry if Nader is on the Ballot? We report results of a pair of experiments designed to test whether Ralph Nader’s presence on the ballot in 2004 makes some voters more, not less, likely to vote for John Kerry. Intuitive spatial considerations suggest Nader should hurt Kerry, because most voters placed Nader left of Kerry and Kerry left of Bush. But a psychological theory b...