Lucie Coufalová: The Role of Attention in Voting Behavior

• 24 September 2024
  10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

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• Large meeting room, ECON MUNI, Lipová 41a + MS Teams

A public lecture of Lucie Coufalová, Ph.D. et Ph.D. within her habilitation procedure in Economic Policy.

Lecture Topic: The Role of Attention in Voting Behavior

Lecture annotation: A lack of information about electoral candidates leads to a ballot order effect that increases the chances of candidates in the top electoral list positions winning voters’ support. The ballot order effect is confounded by the effect of ranking and the effect of attention, which work in the same direction. We exploit a variation in ballot layout (the quasi-random location of the break between the first and  second sides of the ballot) in the 2006, 2010, 2013, and 2017 Czech parliamentary open list proportional representation elections to disentangle these effects and identify the effect of attention. We show that being listed on the reverse side of the ballot paper decreases electoral support—measured by number of preferential votes received—by at least 40%. Focusing on preferential votes allows us to filter out the effect of political party preference.

Tuesday 24 September, ECON MUNI large meeting room, 10:00-11:00 AM.

You can also join on MS Teams: https://muni.cz/go/9ede7f 

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Research and Projects Office (Faculty of Economics and Administration)

Responsibility

Mgr. Blanka Šustrová