01362nam a22001577a 4500 514637 514637 201125b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Meyer, M.C. Gadarian, S.K. and Trounstine, J. 21367 Voting Can Be Hard, Information Helps Urban Affairs Review 56(1), Jan, 2020: p.124-153 Many 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 Local elections, Race, Ethnicity, And politics, Gender and politics, Experimental research, American politics, Political behavior 19453 Urban Affairs Review ELECTIONS - UNITED STATES AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 388640 IIPA IIPA 2020-11-25 56(1), Jan, 2020: p.124-153 AR124118 2020-11-25 AR