Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Title: Partisan Voting Under Uncertainty
Author-Name: Lily Ling Yang
Author-Email: lily.yang@uni-mannheim.de

Classification-JEL: C72, D72, D81
Keywords: Common values, Elections, Information aggregation, Knightian uncertainty, Partisan voting

Abstract: We consider a common-value voting model in which voters are uncertain about the precision of the information they receive. With incomplete preference, party supporters adopt
their own party as their status quo and vote for it whenever it is justi…able under some belief.
Uncertainty is ampli…ed by strategic consideration. As a result, voting becomes fully partisan
and party supporters stick to their own party in large elections, even though all voters share
the same preference. Additionally, voting is more partisan when voting is compulsory or when
the population of party supporters is sufficiently large.

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Length: 45
Creation-Date: 2024-07
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File-URL: https://www.crctr224.de/research/discussion-papers/archive/dp574
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Handle: RePEc:bon:boncrc:CRCTR224_2024_574