Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/267970 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
MUNI ECON Working Paper No. 2022-08
Publisher: 
Masaryk University, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Brno
Abstract: 
The effect of ranking and the effect of attention both increase the chances that candidates running in the top positions of electoral lists will win voters’ support. We exploit a variation in ballot layout (the location of the break between the first and second sides of the ballot) in the 2006–2017 Czech parliamentary 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 by at least 50 %.
Subjects: 
voting behavior
attention
preferential voting
Czech parliamentary elections
JEL: 
D72
D91
P16
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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