The effect of a "none of the above" ballot paper option on voting behavior and election outcomes
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- Ambrus, Attila & Greiner, Ben & Zednik, Anita, 2025. "The effect of a ‘None of the above’ ballot paper option on voting behavior and election outcomes," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 242(C).
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protest voting; expressive voting;JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- C99 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Other
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2020-03-30 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-EXP-2020-03-30 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-POL-2020-03-30 (Positive Political Economics)
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