Plugs, mirrors and scissors: Ballot design effects on electoral behavior

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Natural experiment, electoral behavior, voting technology, ballot design, political reform

Abstract

This article analyzes the effects that new voting systems can have on electoral behavior. Exploiting a natural experiment opportunity, we can estimate the impact of a new technology -and its respective ballot design- on sub national elections in Argentina. Our results are consistent with previous research showing significant effects on the proportion of positive votes, negative votes and splitticket voting. In addition, this exercise has other virtues: (a) we are able to integrate electoral behaviors into the analysis; (b) we add geographic variation with other relevant electoral regulations and (c) the research design allows us to do so by relaxing methodological assumptions.

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2017-11-27

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Vol. 11 No. 2 (2017): Vol. 11 Núm. 2 (2017): Revista SAAP - Volumen 11 Número 2

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Copyright (c) 2017 Juan Dodyk, Juan Pablo Ruiz Nicolini

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