A survey with an embedded experiment conducted during real-world municipal elections using ranked choice voting (RCV). The data, authored by Cheryl Boudreau and hosted by Harvard Dataverse, examines how voter behavior varies with office prestige and in response to endorsements. Political expression and spatial voting were found to drop for local offices below mayor, while union and issue advocacy group endorsements improved outcomes.
Use Cases
- Analyzing the impact of office prestige on voter ranking behavior based on the survey experiment.
- Evaluating the effect of endorsements on spatial voting and political expression for lower-level offices.
- Comparing the efficacy of ranked choice voting systems across different municipal election contexts.
Strengths
- Data is based on a real-world survey experiment conducted during actual municipal elections.
- Analysis includes multiple municipal offices, allowing for comparative assessment of RCV outcomes.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Harvard Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Survey with an embedded experiment conducted during real-world municipal elections.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-13 16:17:55; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Hundreds of U.S. cities