The Use of Partisan Cues in Direct Democracy: Registration of the experimental design.

Abstract

This document presents the use of partisan heuristics in vote choice for direct democratic ballots. We will present our research design which consists of a survey experiment that aims to evaluate the causal effect of partisan heuristic on vote choice. The experiment is conducted in Switzerland on a representative sample of 2000 respondents with the survey company Link. Additionally, we run the survey through a local newspaper website (Bielertagblatt) on Facebook and with a list of email we collected in previous surveys. The survey concerns a single ballot issue on which the Swiss people will have to vote on the 9th of February 2020. The ballot is an initiative that aims to increase the supply of affordable housing