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creators_name: Katz, Gabriel
creators_name: Alvarez, R. Michael
creators_name: Calvo, Ernesto
creators_name: Escolar, Marcelo
creators_name: Pomares, Julia
creators_id: g.katz@imtlucca.it
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title: Assessing the Impact of Alternative Voting Technologies on Multi-Party Elections: Design Features, Heuristic Processing and Voter Choice
ispublished: pub
subjects: JF
subjects: JK
subjects: T1
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: none
keywords: Voting technology, Multiparty systems, Field experiments 
note: Published online 6 August 2010. 
abstract: This paper analyzes the influence of alternative voting technologies on electoral outcomes in multi-party systems. Using data from a field experiment conducted during the 2005 legislative election in Argentina, we examine the role of information effects associated with alternative voting devices on the support for the competing parties. We find that differences in the type of information displayed and how it was presented across devices favored some parties to the detriment of others. The impact of voting technologies was found to be larger than in two-party systems, and could lead to changes in election results. We conclude that authorities in countries moving to adopt new voting systems should carefully take the potential partisan advantages induced by different technologies into account when evaluating their implementation.
date: 2011-06
date_type: published
publication: Political Behavior
volume: 33
number: 2
publisher: Springer Netherlands
pagerange: 247-270
id_number: 10.1007/s11109-010-9132-y
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0190-9320
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11109-010-9132-y
citation:   Katz, Gabriel and Alvarez, R. Michael and Calvo, Ernesto and Escolar, Marcelo and Pomares, Julia  Assessing the Impact of Alternative Voting Technologies on Multi-Party Elections: Design Features, Heuristic Processing and Voter Choice.  Political Behavior, 33 (2).  pp. 247-270.  ISSN 0190-9320      (2011)