Voter behaviour and polarisation: The role of social preferences

该项目旨在研究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，对精心控制的选举进行研究，然后对结果进行大规模的现实测试。预期结果包括提高对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和结果的理解。主要的好处包括能够为政策提供建议，以减少两极分化，改善政治制度，以确保它们反映真实的社会偏好。

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.