Are Voters Risk Averse? Specifying Utility Functions in Spatial Models of Voting

• In Event: Preferences and Estimation

Brief Overview

This paper considers how voters' risk attitudes shape demand for candidate clarity, adapting alpha-NOMINATE to estimate utility curvature and using conjoint experiments to assess the influence of ambiguity and uncertainty on vote choice.

Authors

• Carlos Andres Algara, Claremont Graduate University

• Sam Fuller, Harvard University

• Christopher Hare, University of California, Davis