Internet search rankings have a significant impact on consumer choices, mainly because
users trust and choose higher-ranked results more than lower-ranked results. Given the …

A recent series of experiments demonstrated that introducing ranking bias to election-related
search engine results can have a strong and undetectable influence on the preferences of …

Weighting techniques are employed to generalize results from survey experiments to
populations of theoretical and substantive interest. Although weighting is often viewed as a …

Accelerating the field's capacity to learn in and through practice is one key to transforming
promising ideas in education into tools, interventions, and professional development …

While most of the literature on information shortcuts in open-list PR systems focuses on the
importance of ballot position effects, the influence of a candidate's localness has widely …

People use space (eg, left–right, up-down) to think about a variety of non-spatial concepts
like time, number, similarity, and emotional valence. These spatial metaphors can be used to …

Many studies show that the order of candidates' names on the ballot has an effect on voting.
Less informed and indifferent voters may simplify the voting process by using the ballot …

Candidates listed first on the ballot paper regularly receive more votes than other
candidates, but what role does ballot layout play in this connection? Experimental studies …

A number of studies have explored the possibility that the ordering of candidates' names on
the ballot might influence how those candidates perform on election day. Strong evidence of …

We introduce a typology of election administration harms and apply it to empirically study the
consequences of ballot design. Our typology distinguishes between individual, electoral …