Notice of RetractionDoes group size matters in sequential voting?

Notice of Retraction

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In this paper, we analyze the strategic abstention in laboratory under costly sequential voting where voter´s payoff depends on his/her preference parameter and voters are separated into different size of early and later groups. The experimental results show that the size of early and later voting groups has a strong impact upon voters´ turnout. The voting advantage and the strategies which early and later voters have are affected by their group size. When the size of early group is much smaller than that of later group, early voters tend to choose abstention to avoid voting cost since they realize that the later voters can swing the early voting results. On the contrary, the early voters would turn out more frequently and try to decide the voting results when they learn the size of early group is larger than that of later group.