The causal impact of ballot order on voting behaviour : evidence from a natural experiment in Italy

Fil: Giulla, Tommaso. Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía; Argentina.

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Autor principal: Giulla, Tommaso
Otros Autores: Rossi, Martín A.
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Publicado: Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía 2023
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10908/22979
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spelling I37-R143-10908-229792025-01-20T15:22:15Z The causal impact of ballot order on voting behaviour : evidence from a natural experiment in Italy Giulla, Tommaso Rossi, Martín A. Fil: Giulla, Tommaso. Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía; Argentina. The study of ballot design has gained salience in political science. The very procedure voters need to carry out in order to vote affects electoral outcomes, on top of the more direct effects of electoral rules. I focus on a specific channel through which such effects might realise: the order in which parties appear in the voting paper. Exploiting a natural experiment in the 2018 Italian general election, I estimate the electoral gain obtained by parties by virtue of being assigned the first (top-left) position in the voting paper. I use the fact that in Italy the party order in ballots is determined independently for the two elected chambers, thus exposing voters to two different exogenously determined lists. I find that, within a same municipality, parties which are assigned the first position in one chamber obtain a vote share between 0.1 and 0.2 p.p. higher relative to the other chamber. On average, this means that roughly 1 voter every 500 is influenced by the order in which party appears on the voting paper. 2023-05-12T19:47:27Z 2023-05-12T19:47:27Z 2022-12 Tesis info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis info:ar-repo/semantics/tesis de maestría info:eu-repo/semantics/updatedVersion Giulla, T. (2022). The causal impact of ballot order on voting behaviour : evidence from a natural experiment in Italy. [Tesis de maestría, Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía]. Repositorio Digital San Andrés. http://hdl.handle.net/10908/22979 http://hdl.handle.net/10908/22979 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ application/pdf application/pdf Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía
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