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Framed-field Experiment on Approval Voting and Evaluation Voting. Some Teachings to Reform the French Presidential Electoral System

In: In Situ and Laboratory Experiments on Electoral Law Reform

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  • Antoinette Baujard
  • Herrade Igersheim

    (University of Strasbourg)

Abstract

This paper presents the framed-field experiment on Approval Voting and (+2,+1,0) Evaluation Voting rules that took place during the 2007 French presidential elections. It aims at comparing the two tested voting rules with the two-round plurality vote currently used in the French presidential electoral system, notably on the basis of questionnaires collected during the experiment. In particular, we seriously challenge two common beliefs about the advantages of the official voting system – the important number of candidates and the guaranteed absolute majority. Besides, we show that the criteria that proved to be appreciated by actual voters – expression, simplicity and transparency – are more likely to be respected by the tested voting rules, especially approval voting.

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  • Antoinette Baujard & Herrade Igersheim, 2011. "Framed-field Experiment on Approval Voting and Evaluation Voting. Some Teachings to Reform the French Presidential Electoral System," Studies in Public Choice, in: Bernard Dolez & Bernard Grofman & Annie Laurent (ed.), In Situ and Laboratory Experiments on Electoral Law Reform, chapter 0, pages 69-89, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:stpchp:978-1-4419-7539-3_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7539-3_4
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    1. Alcantud, José Carlos R. & Laruelle, Annick, 2012. "To approve or not to approve: this is not the only question," MPRA Paper 41885, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Annick Laruelle, 2021. "“Not This One”: Experimental Use of the Approval and Disapproval Ballot," Homo Oeconomicus: Journal of Behavioral and Institutional Economics, Springer, vol. 38(1), pages 15-28, December.
    3. Laruelle, Annick, 2018. "Voting and expressing dissatisfaction: an experiment during the 2017 French Presidential election," IKERLANAK 25736, Universidad del País Vasco - Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I.
    4. José Alcantud & Annick Laruelle, 2014. "Dis&approval voting: a characterization," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 43(1), pages 1-10, June.

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