Start Spreading the Views: Political Endorsements Improve Voters’ Choices in Local Elections with Ranked Choice Voting

• In Event: Voters' Electoral Behavior

Brief Overview

We use a survey experiment to examine political expression and spatial voting in local elections with ranked choice voting. Expression and spatial voting decrease as the level of the election decreases, but endorsements can improve these outcomes.

Authors

• Cheryl Boudreau, University of California-Davis

• Jonathan P Colner, University of California-Davis

• Scott Alan MacKenzie, University of California-Davis