Implementation Intentions, Information, and Voter Turnout: An Experimental Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 1089-1103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cameron D. Anderson ◽  
Peter J. Loewen ◽  
R. Michael McGregor
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Implementation Intentions

scholarly journals Neighborhood Information Exchange and Voter Participation: An Experimental Study

2006 ◽  
Vol 100 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
JENS GROßER ◽  
ARTHUR SCHRAM
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Social Embeddedness ◽  
Voter Participation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Role Of Information ◽  
First Mover ◽  
Do So

We study the effect of social embeddedness on voter turnout by investigating the role of information about other voters' decisions. We do so in a participation game, in which we distinguish between early and late voters. Each late voter is told about one early voter's turnout decision. Cases are distinguished where the voters are allies (support the same group) or adversaries (with opposing preferences) and where they are uncertain about each other's preferences. Our experimental results show that the social embeddedness matters: this information increases aggregate turnout by approximately 50%. The largest effect is observed for allies. Early voters strategically try to use their first mover position and late voters respond to this.

scholarly journals If We Build It, Only Some Will Come: An Experimental Study of Mobilization for Seattle’s Democracy Voucher Program

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Henderson ◽  
Hahrie Han
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Election Cycle ◽  
Advocacy Organizations ◽  
Underrepresented Groups ◽  
Voucher Program ◽  
Electoral Reforms ◽  
New Democracy ◽  
Registered Voter

Abstract Seattle, Washington instituted a new “democracy voucher” program in 2017 providing each registered voter with four $25 campaign finance vouchers to contribute to municipal candidates. Prior research shows that without efforts to mobilize voters, electoral reforms like the voucher program are often insufficient to increase participation among underrepresented groups. We examine how mobilization affects the voucher program’s redistributive goals – does it increase participation among infrequent voters, or does it engage regular participants in politics? In the 2017 election cycle, we partnered with a coalition of advocacy organizations on a field experiment to estimate the effects of providing voters with information about democracy vouchers through door-to-door canvassing, texting, digital advertisements, and e-mails. While mobilization increased voucher use and voter turnout, responsiveness was greatest among frequent voters. As our findings suggest that transactional mobilizing is insufficient to engage infrequent participants, we posit that deeper organizing is necessary to fulfill the program’s redistributive goals.

scholarly journals Electoral Fraud and Voter Turnout: An Experimental Study

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vardan Baghdasaryan ◽  
Giovanna Iannantuoni ◽  
Valeria Maggian
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Electoral Fraud

scholarly journals If-Then Planning Helps School-Aged Children to Ignore Attractive Distractions

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Wieber ◽  
Antje von Suchodoletz ◽  
Tobias Heikamp ◽  
Gisela Trommsdorff ◽  
Peter M. Gollwitzer
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Response Times ◽  
Implementation Intentions ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Ongoing Task ◽  
Categorization Task ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
Field Of Vision ◽  
Language Competency ◽  
Goal Intentions

Can children improve shielding an ongoing task from distractions by if-then planning (i.e., by forming implementation intentions)? In an experimental study, the situational and personal limits of action control by distraction-inhibiting implementation intentions (“If a distraction comes up, then I will ignore it!”) were tested by comparing them to simple goal intentions (“I will ignore distractions!”). Goal intentions were sufficient to successfully ignore distractions of low attractiveness. In the presence of moderately and highly attractive distractions, as well as a distraction presented out of the children’s sight, however, only implementation intentions improved children’s task shielding, as indicated by faster response times in an ongoing categorization task and shorter periods of looking at highly attractive distractions presented out of their field of vision. These findings held true regardless of the children’s temperament and language competency. Implications for research on planning and developmental research on self-control are discussed.

scholarly journals Electoral fraud and voter turnout: An experimental study

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 203-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vardan Baghdasaryan ◽  
Giovanna Iannantuoni ◽  
Valeria Maggian
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Electoral Fraud

scholarly journals Altruism, Noise, and the Paradox of Voter Turnout: An Experimental Study

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Sarah A. Tulman
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Experimental Study ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Participation Rates ◽  
Quantal Response ◽  
Voting Participation

This paper addresses the paradox of voter turnout, wherein observed voting participation rates are far greater than what rational choice theory would predict. Voters face multiple voting choices, stochastic voting costs, and candidates offering different economic platforms. A combination of two approaches attempts to resolve this paradox: quantal response equilibrium (QRE) analysis, which introduces noise into the decision-making process, and the possibility of ethical (altruism-motivated) voting. A series of laboratory experiments empirically tests the predictions of the resulting model. Participants in the experiments are also given opportunities for communicating online with their immediate neighbors, in order to enhance the chances that subjects would realize the possibility of ethical voting. The results show that ethical voting occurs but gains momentum only in the presence of a vocal advocate and even then it mostly dissipated by the second half of the session. The QRE-based model was able to explain some but not all of the overvoting that was observed, relative to the Nash equilibrium prediction. There is evidence to suggest that communication via the chat feature generated some of the voting and also some of the ethical voting.

Experimental study on the restoration from a tilt-azimuth series for improvement in resolution

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 636-637
Author(s):  
Norio Baba ◽  
Norihiko Ichise ◽  
Syunya Watanabe
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Spherical Aberration ◽  
Incident Beam ◽  
Optical Parameters ◽  
Beam Tilting ◽  
Illumination Method ◽  
Restoration Method ◽  
Illumination Mode

The tilted beam illumination method is used to improve the resolution comparing with the axial illumination mode. Using this advantage, a restoration method of several tilted beam images covering the full azimuthal range was proposed by Saxton, and experimentally examined. To make this technique more reliable it seems that some practical problems still remain. In this report the restoration was attempted and the problems were considered. In our study, four problems were pointed out for the experiment of the restoration. (1) Accurate beam tilt adjustment to fit the incident beam to the coma-free axis for the symmetrical beam tilting over the full azimuthal range. (2) Accurate measurements of the optical parameters which are necessary to design the restoration filter. Even if the spherical aberration coefficient Cs is known with accuracy and the axial astigmatism is sufficiently compensated, at least the defocus value must be measured. (3) Accurate alignment of the tilt-azimuth series images.

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