Abstract
In this paper, I first survey a part of experimental literature on voting, where I restrict my argument to laboratory experiments conducted with multiple subjects who are given monetary payoffs from each voting outcome and make voting decisions under given voting rules. I classify such experiments according to whether voting is costly or not (participation) and whether the number of alternatives for subjects, such as candidates, is two or more (direction). Then I discuss some of the challenges and prospects in this research field, such as the role of laboratory experiments as wind tunnel experiments for designing new political institutions, the possibility of reproducing elections in the laboratory, and the effect of political context on the experimental outcomes.
