Framing Effects In Political Decision Making: Evidence From A Natural Voting Experiment
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Overview: This paper analyzes a recent ballot in which two virtually identical popular initiatives, both demanding a decrease in the legal age of retirement in Switzerland, led to differences in approval rates of nearly seven percentage points. Based on this unique natural experiment, the existence of emphasis framing effects is tested for and their determinants are identified outside of the controlled settings of laboratories. Nonetheless, the analyzed setting allows for considerably more control than usually available in the field: All party, government and interest group recommendations were symmetric for both initiatives and the simultaneous vote rules out potential variation of individual preferences and compositional changes of the electorate over time.
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Format: PDF | Size: 691KB | Date: Feb 2007 | Pages: 57
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