Abstract:
We study voter behavior in a setting characterized by plurality rule and
mandatory voting, where voters choose from three options.
Because of the possibility of Arrow’s cycle, strategic voting may emerge.
In particular, we focus on how information contained in
election poll results affects voter’s choices. This study builds upon a
former study by the author’s. In particular, the present model normalizes
the payoffs of the best and worst options, but allow the payoff of the
intermediate option to vary within an electorate. Three information
conditions are tested: no information, in which voters know only their own
preference ordering and the own payoff for the intermediate option;
aggregate info, in which in addition they know the aggregate realized
distribution of the preference orderings and full info, in which the
realized distribution of the payoffs for the intermediate option is also
known.