Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7464449 | Electoral Studies | 2014 | 15 Pages |
Abstract
Under evaluative voting, the voter freely grades each candidate on a numerical scale, with the winning candidate being determined by the sum of the grades they receive. This paper compares evaluative voting with the two-round system, reporting on an experiment, conducted during the 2012 French presidential election, which attracted 2340 participants. Here we show that the two-round system favors “exclusive” candidates, that is candidates who elicit strong feelings, while evaluative rules favor “inclusive” candidates, that is candidates who attract the support of a large span of the electorate. These differences are explained by two complementary reasons: the opportunity for the voter to support several candidates under evaluative voting rules, and the specific pattern of strategic voting under the two-round voting rule.
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Authors
Antoinette Baujard, Herrade Igersheim, Isabelle Lebon, Frédéric Gavrel, Jean-François Laslier,