Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Philippos Louis
Author-Name-First: Philippos
Author-Name-Last: Louis
Author-Name: Orestis Troumpounis
Author-Name-First: Orestis
Author-Name-Last: Troumpounis
Author-Name: Nikolaos Tsakas
Author-Name-First: Nikolaos
Author-Name-Last: Tsakas
Author-Name: Dimitrios Xefteris
Author-Name-First: Dimitrios
Author-Name-Last: Xefteris
Title: Protest voting in the laboratory
Abstract: Formal analysis predicts that the likelihood of an electoral accident depends on the preference intensity for a successful protest, but not on the protest's popularity: an increase in protest's popularity is fully offset by a reduction in the individual probability of casting a protest vote. By conducting the first laboratory experiment on protest voting, we find strong evidence in favor of the first prediction and qualified support for the latter. While the offset effect is present, it is not as strong as the theory predicts: protest candidates gain both by fanaticising existing protesters<br/>and by expanding the protest's popular base.
Creation-Date: 2020
File-URL: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/documents/lums/economics/working-papers/LancasterWP2020_002.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Number: 288072952
Classification-JEL: D72
Keywords: protest voting, electoral accident, coordination, laboratory experiment
Handle: RePEc:lan:wpaper:288072952