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"Polls and coalition signals can help strategic voters in multiparty systems with
proportional representation and coalition governments to optimise their vote decision.
Using a laboratory experiment embedded in two real election campaigns, this study focuses
on voters' attention to and perception of polls and coalition signals. The manipulation of
polls and coalition signals allows a causal test of their influence on strategic voting in a
realistic environment. The findings suggest that active information acquisition to form fairly
accurate perceptions of election outcomes can compensate for the advantage of high political
sophistication. The theory of strategic voting is supported by the evidence, but only for a
small number of voters. Most insincere vote decisions are explained by other factors. Thus,
the common practice to consider all insincere voters as strategic is misleading." (author's abstract)

Ergebnisse der Parlamentswahlen vom 6. November 1983; Gründe für den Wahlsieg der von Özal geführten Mutterland-Partei; regionale Stimmverteilung; Kritik an den Wahlen; Probleme, mit denen sich Özal konfrontiert sieht. (DÜI-Ott)

Between February and April, 1983, the Research Department of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies organized a number of forums to discuss a variety of important problems facing the country. These included the conduct of elections, the planning and operation of the presidential budgeting system, the problems of ethnicity, training policies in science and technology, as well as the Economic Stabilization Act and its impact on the economy. These topics were intended to stimulate new ideas and perspectives in the formulation of policies and in the operation of the national development strategies in the chosen areas. This monograph is the first in the series of the reports of the proceedings of these seminars and workshops

Vergleich der Durchführung der Wahlen in Simbabwe (Februar 1980) und in Uganda (Dezember 1980). In beiden Ländern waren internationale Beobachter zugelassen worden. (DÜI-Ker)