Does citizens' voting behavior influence government policy? Conventional models of democratic representation assume that issue voting by citizens induces government responsiveness to citizens' preferences. However, existing research has not tested whether voting behavior makes any difference to responsiveness. We present a theoretical model of issue voting and policy responsiveness. We.. To examine the consequences for voting decisions, we asked the respondents to vote in two hypothetical primary elections at the end of study 2 (study 2b). We then examined the impact of the ask.

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While the connection to social ties is somewhat unclear, VAAs clearly offer a powerful heuristic tool that to some extent can substitute guiding heuristics from social contacts and interactions. It may not be surprising that VAAs are growing in popularity in the highly complex political environment with mandatory preference voting that exist in.. this is what social choice theorists who have interpreted social choice functions as kinds of voting procedures seem to endorse. The idea is roughly that a procedure is democratic if it takes the preferences of each member and, by means of some procedure, aggregates them into a collective decision. The vote itself is either a preference itself.