01256nam a22001217a 4500008004100000100005100041245004200092260002500134300003200159520078300191650013400974773002601108201125b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aMeyer, M.C. Gadarian, S.K. and Trounstine, J.   aVoting Can Be Hard, Information Helps  aUrban Affairs Review  a56(1), Jan, 2020: p.124-153  aMany U.S. elections provide voters with precious little information about candidates on the ballot. In local contests, party labels are often absent. In primary elections, party labels are not useful. Indeed, much of the time, voters have only the name of the candidate to go by. In these contexts, how do voters make decisions? Using several experiments, we find that voters use candidates’ race, ethnicity, and gender as cues for whom to support—penalizing candidates of color and benefiting women. But we also demonstrate that providing even a small amount of information to voters—such as candidate occupation—virtually erases the effects of candidate demographics on voter behavior, even among voters with high levels of racial and gender prejudice. – Reproduced   aLocal elections, Race, Ethnicity, And politics, Gender and politics, Experimental research, American politics, Political behavior  aUrban Affairs Review