Decision Strategies and the Quality of Voter Decision Making

• In Event: Context and Civic Competence

Brief Overview

We present the results of an experiment in which we manipulate the decision strategies voters use in reaching their vote decisions in a mock primary election campaign. Will high information, high effort strategies produce the highest quality votes?

Authors

• Richard R. Lau, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

• Lasse Laustsen, Aarhus University

• Katherine Thompson McCabe, Rutgers University

• Dieter Stiers, KU Leuven