Replication Data for: Incentivized choice in large-scale voting experiments

Survey experiments that investigate how voting procedures affect voting behavior and election outcomes use hypothetical questions and non-representative samples. We present here the results of a novel survey experiment that addresses both concerns. First, the winning party in our experiment receives a donation to its campaign funds inducing real consequences for voting. Second, we run an online experiment with a Dutch national representative sample (N=1,240). Our results validate previous findings using a representative sample, in particular that approval voting leads to a higher concentration in votes for smaller parties and strengthens centrist parties in comparison to plurality voting. Importantly, our results suggest that voting behavior is not affected by voting incentives and can be equally reliably elicited with hypothetical questions.旨在探究选举程序如何影响投票行为与选举结果的调查实验，通常采用假设性问题与非代表性样本开展研究。本研究呈现一项全新调查实验的结果，该实验针对性解决了上述两类局限：其一，本实验中的获胜政党将获得一笔用于其竞选活动的资金捐赠，此举可为投票行为赋予实际影响；其二，本研究采用荷兰全国代表性样本（N=1240）开展线上实验。本研究结果验证了过往采用代表性样本得到的研究结论，具体而言，相较于相对多数投票制（plurality voting），认可投票制（approval voting）会让选票更集中投向小型政党，并强化中间派政党的优势。值得注意的是，本研究结果表明，投票激励并不会对投票行为产生影响，且通过假设性问题同样可以可靠地获取投票行为相关数据。