A mixed-utility theory of vote choice regret
The paper builds upon an original pre- and post-election survey that we conducted before and after the 2015 Canadian election. Directly after Election Day, we asked Canadians for which party they voted, and whether they regret their choice. We find that 39% of them are not perfectly happy with their...
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description | The paper builds upon an original pre- and post-election survey that we conducted before and after the 2015 Canadian election. Directly after Election Day, we asked Canadians for which party they voted, and whether they regret their choice. We find that 39% of them are not perfectly happy with their decision, and 4% even say that they made a bad decision. We show that the propensity to regret can be explained by a mixed-utility theory, whereby voters attempt to maximize a mixture of instrumental and expressive utilities. Our study contributes to the literatures on voting behaviour and political economy, which usually considers that voters are either instrumental or expressive, but not both at the same time. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s11127-018-0571-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-64242012019-04-05 A mixed-utility theory of vote choice regret Bol, Damien Blais, André Laslier, Jean-François Public Choice Article The paper builds upon an original pre- and post-election survey that we conducted before and after the 2015 Canadian election. Directly after Election Day, we asked Canadians for which party they voted, and whether they regret their choice. We find that 39% of them are not perfectly happy with their decision, and 4% even say that they made a bad decision. We show that the propensity to regret can be explained by a mixed-utility theory, whereby voters attempt to maximize a mixture of instrumental and expressive utilities. Our study contributes to the literatures on voting behaviour and political economy, which usually considers that voters are either instrumental or expressive, but not both at the same time. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s11127-018-0571-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer US 2018-06-16 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6424201/ /pubmed/30956367 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11127-018-0571-z Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Article Bol, Damien Blais, André Laslier, Jean-François A mixed-utility theory of vote choice regret |
title | A mixed-utility theory of vote choice regret |
title_full | A mixed-utility theory of vote choice regret |
title_fullStr | A mixed-utility theory of vote choice regret |
title_full_unstemmed | A mixed-utility theory of vote choice regret |
title_short | A mixed-utility theory of vote choice regret |
title_sort | mixed-utility theory of vote choice regret |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6424201/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30956367 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11127-018-0571-z |
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