Bandwagons and Momentum in Sequential Voting

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Momentum and Social Learning in Presidential Primaries (2010, unknown): “Callander (2007) proposes a model where every voter gains utility from both conforming, de ned as supporting the eventual winner, and voting informatively, de ned as supporting the best candidate based on their belief about the true state of the world.”
Overconfidence in Political Behavior (2015, unknown): “Recent field experiments show that this model fits data better than a fully Bayesian model (Chandrasekhar et al., 2012). This paper is related to a number of additional literatures. First and foremost, the (6)This literature is small, and includes Matsusaka (1995); Bendor et al.”
Are public opinion polls self-fulfilling prophecies? (2014, background): “…our findings speak to the literature on how voters incorporate information from sequential elections such as presidential primaries (e.g. Callander, 2007; Bartels, 1988; Morton and Williams, 2001) or from early preelection polling (e.g. Sinclair and Plott, 2012; Rickershauser and…”