Replication Data for: Rational Voting Behavior Accounting for Heterogeneous Ballots in British Elections

The most analyzed choice situation by electoral researchers is at the ballot box. In partially-contested elections, such as in Britain or Spain, voters cannot vote for all parties in every region or constituency. We present a modeling approach to study rational voting behavior that integrates such heterogeneous ballots and takes voting for the numerous parties therein seriously. The empirical application to the 2015 British Election demonstrates substantial insights not found when neglecting ballot composition heterogeneity or applying existing approaches.

选举研究领域学者最常分析的决策场景便是投票箱（ballot box）。在英国、西班牙这类不完全参选选举中，选民无法在所有地区或选区（constituency）内为所有政党投票。我们提出了一种用于研究理性投票行为的建模方法，该方法整合了这类异质性选票（heterogeneous ballots），并充分纳入了选民可在该类选票下为众多政党投票的研究维度。将该方法应用于2015年英国大选的实证分析后，我们获得了相较于忽略选票构成异质性（ballot composition heterogeneity）或采用现有研究方法时无法得到的重要研究发现。