Voting experiments: Bandwagon voting or false-consensus effect?
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Abstract
In an experiment designed to test for expressive voting, Tyran (JPubEc 2004) found a strong
positive correlation between the participants’ approval for a proposal to donate money for
charity and their expected approval rate for fellow voters. This phenomenon can be due to
bandwagon voting or a false consensus effect. The social science literature reports both effects
for voting decisions. Replicating Tyran’s experiment and adding new treatments, we
provide evidence for a false consensus effect but find no support for bandwagon voting.
Keywords
experiments, voting, false consensus effect, bandwagon voting