Who's favored by evaluative voting?: An experiment conducted during the 2012 French presidential election

• Autores: Antoinette Baujard, Herrade Igersheim, Isabelle Lebon, Frédéric Gavrel, Jean-François Laslier
• Localización: Electoral Studies: An international Journal, ISSN 0261-3794, Vol. 34, 2014, págs. 131-145
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Under evaluative voting, the voter freely grades each candidate on a numerical scale, with the winning candidate being determined by the sum of the grades they receive. This paper compares evaluative voting with the two-round system, reporting on an experiment, conducted during the 2012 French presidential election, which attracted 2340 participants. Here we show that the two-round system favors �exclusive� candidates, that is candidates who elicit strong feelings, while evaluative rules favor �inclusive� candidates, that is candidates who attract the support of a large span of the electorate. These differences are explained by two complementary reasons: the opportunity for the voter to support several candidates under evaluative voting rules, and the specific pattern of strategic voting under the two-round voting rule.