Voter behaviour and polarisation: The role of social preferences

选民行为和两极分化：社会偏好的作用

• 批准号: DP220102533
• 负责人: A/Prof Marco Faravelli
• 金额: $ 15.8万
• 依托单位: The University of Queensland
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2022-08-01 至 2026-02-25
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP220102533
• 关键词: Voter; behaviour; polarisation; role; social

This project aims to investigate how peer pressure and other social concerns affect voter participation, vote choice, and political polarisation. It will marry behavioural experimental economics with political economics and make use of complementary experimental methods that will allow for the study of carefully controlled elections, followed by a large-scale real-world test of the results. Expected outcomes include improved understanding of how social media and other social factors, and political institutions such as compulsory voting, distort election representation and outcomes. Major benefits include the ability to advise policies to reduce polarisation and improve political institutions to ensure they reflect true societal preferences.

该项目旨在调查同伴压力和其他社会问题如何影响选民参与、投票选择和政治两极分化。它将把行为实验经济学与政治经济学结合起来，并利用互补的实验方法来研究精心控制的选举，然后对结果进行大规模的现实测试。预期成果包括更好地了解社交媒体和其他社会因素以及强制投票等政治制度如何扭曲选举代表性和结果。主要好处包括能够为减少两极分化和改善政治机构的政策提供建议，以确保它们反映真实的社会偏好。