Support for Electoral System Reform among Voters and Politicians Studying Information Effects through Survey Experiments

• In Event: Electoral Systems: Consequences and Reform

Brief Overview

We study attitudes toward reform of the Norwegian electoral system, among voters and politicians.
Using a survey experiment, we find strong information-effects in all groups. The strong effects among politicians can be explained by partisanship.

Authors

• Bernt Aardal, University of Oslo, Norway

• Sveinung Arnesen, NORCE - Norwegian Research Centre

• Johannes Bergh, Institute for social research

• Dag Arne Christensen, Uni Research Rokkan Centre