Pivotality and Responsibility Attribution in Sequential Voting

Bartling, Björn; Fischbacher, Urs; Schudy, Simeon

Pivotality and Responsibility Attribution in Sequential Voting

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Date

2014

Authors

Bartling, Björn

Fischbacher, Urs

Schudy, Simeon

Series

Research paper series / Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut; 90

Publication type

Working Paper/Technical Report

Abstract

Are people blamed for being pivotal if they implement an unpopular outcome in a sequential voting process? We conduct an experimental voting game and analyze how pivotality affects responsibility attribution by parties who can be negatively affected by the voting outcome. We measure responsibility attribution by assigned punishment points and find that pivotal decision makers are blamed significantly more than non-pivotal decision makers. Moreover, we find that some voters avoid being pivotal by voting strategically to delegate the pivotal vote to subsequent decision makers.

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330 Economics

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BARTLING, Björn, Urs FISCHBACHER, Simeon SCHUDY, 2014. Pivotality and Responsibility Attribution in Sequential Voting

BibTex

@techreport{Bartling2014Pivot-28242,
  year={2014},
  series={Research paper series / Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut},
  title={Pivotality and Responsibility Attribution in Sequential Voting},
  number={90},
  author={Bartling, Björn and Fischbacher, Urs and Schudy, Simeon}
}

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