EAGER: Behavior under Open List Proportional Representation Systems

EAGER：开放列表比例代表制下的行为

• 批准号: 1832771
• 负责人: Mark Jones
• 金额: $ 1.24万
• 依托单位: William Marsh Rice University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-08-15 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1832771&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Behavior; under; Open; List

This research has implications on the functioning of democracy not only for the Honduran case but for all the region. Most of Latin American countries share some of the feature present in Honduras: multiparty systems, low institutionalization of political parties, weak programmatic links between parties and voters, which makes the vote choices very volatile and hence the information available at the time of the election has a prominent role. This is all against a backdrop of eroded confidence in the electoral system, which is to a certain extent shared across the region. Deepening the understanding of the electoral process through individual-level data is key to better understand voter behavior and how this impacts and shapes representation, influences parties? decisions and legislative outcomes. Ideological identification, candidate issue position and party identification (Campbell et al 1960) can help voters make their voting choice. However, when voters have to choose among parties and candidates within them (i.e. open list systems with panachage), party ideology or issue position may not provide enough information to the voter. In this context, some voters may rely on information cues such as name recognition, incumbency, gender and race among others, while others will simply deploy satisficing strategies to deal with voter fatigue phenomena. In addition to this, ballots may not be presenting all alternatives equally or may demand a different amount of resources for the choices available. Or some candidates can be favored given their placement in the ballot, or by physical attributes visible thought the picture in the ballot. Although it is reasonable to assume all these factors can affect voter behavior, we know very little about voters? decision under these set of rules. In this project we use a stratified sample of actual votes cast randomly selected out of the more than 18.103 ballot boxes across the Honduras, where six million Hondurans were registered to vote. Analyzing actual votes cast in open list systems may provide the means to deepening our understanding of the electoral process and how voters use the provisions offered by the electoral rules.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这项研究对民主的运作具有影响，不仅对哥伦比亚的情况，而且对整个地区。大多数拉丁美洲国家都有洪都拉斯的一些共同特点：多党制、政党制度化程度低、政党与选民之间的方案联系薄弱，这使得投票选择非常不稳定，因此选举时所掌握的信息具有突出的作用。这一切都是在对选举制度的信心受到侵蚀的背景下发生的，在某种程度上，整个区域都有这种信心。通过个人层面的数据加深对选举过程的理解是更好地了解选民行为以及这如何影响和塑造代表性，影响政党的关键？决定和立法成果。意识形态认同、候选人议题立场和政党认同（坎贝尔等，1960）可以帮助选民做出投票选择。然而，当选民必须在政党和政党内的候选人中做出选择时（即带有Panachage的开放名单制度），政党意识形态或问题立场可能无法为选民提供足够的信息。在这种情况下，一些选民可能会依赖于信息线索，如姓名识别，在职，性别和种族等，而其他人则会简单地部署满意的策略来处理选民疲劳现象。除此之外，选票可能不会平等地呈现所有选项，或者可能需要不同数量的资源来进行选择。或者一些候选人可以根据他们在选票中的位置，或者通过选票中图片可见的物理属性而受到青睐。尽管我们有理由假设所有这些因素都会影响选民的行为，但我们对选民知之甚少。根据这些规则的决定。在这个项目中，我们使用了从洪都拉斯全国18103个投票箱中随机选出的实际投票的分层样本，其中有600万洪都拉斯人登记投票。分析开放列表系统中的实际投票可以加深我们对选举过程的理解，以及选民如何使用选举规则提供的条款。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。