Ballot Titles and Voter Decision Making on Ballot Questions

Autor:	Jeff Hastings, Damon M. Cann
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Ballot Framing (social sciences) Public Administration Law Political science Political Science and International Relations Direct democracy Conventional wisdom Exhaustive ballot Empirical evidence Framing effect Law and economics
Zdroj:	State and Local Government Review. 46:118-127
ISSN:	1943-3409 0160-323X
DOI:	10.1177/0160323x14535410
Popis:	From gay marriage to taxation to environmental issues, many of our nation’s most important policy issues are decided by voters through ballot questions. Conventional wisdom holds that information provided on the ballot about the ballot questions heavily influences voters’ choices in those elections, but there is little empirical evidence of this. We apply theories of framing to voters’ choices on ballot questions and design an experiment to test the hypothesis that ballot title wording influences voters’ decisions. Even on a matter that is hotly contested and where the policy is relatively noncomplex and relatively well understood by voters, we find strong framing effects for changes in ballot title wording, though the effects are driven primarily by influencing whether individuals who previously supported the measure abstained from participation.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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