The Road to Reelection is Paved with Good Intentions: Experiments on the Role of Outcomes and Intentions in Voting Behavior

• In Event: Ethics and Intentions of Democracy and Voting

Brief Overview

When voting retrospectively, we use incentivized experiments to show voters take into account both incumbent policy outcomes and the intentions of the incumbent.

Authors

• Talbot M Andrews, Princeton University

• Scott Bokemper, Yale University