Strategic Abandonment or Sincerely Second Best? The 1999 Israeli Prime Ministerial Election
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 66, Heft 3, S. 706-728
ISSN: 0022-3816
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In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 66, Heft 3, S. 706-728
ISSN: 0022-3816
In: Electoral Studies, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 134-139
In: Electoral studies: an international journal, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 134-139
ISSN: 0261-3794
The 2010 elections in the United Kingdom provided voters with numerous and diverse opportunities to reason strategically. The Liberal Democrats (Lib Dems)-traditionally finishing a distant third in terms of seats in Parliament-vied with labour to be the principal competition to the Conservatives, who failed to win a majority of seats, creating a rare case of what the British call a hung parliament. These conditions varied across constituencies at the district level, and we exploit this variation to study the incidence of "tactical" voting. But the national outcome also presented strategic considerations for voters, and the conditions varied to some extent over the course of the campaign, giving voters interviewed at different times different sets of national considerations for tactical voting. This presents us with the opportunity to investigate how both local and national considerations may shape strategic reasoning among voters and relate to each other and to the final choices of voters on Election Day.
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In: Comparative political studies: CPS, Band 43, Heft 1, S. 61-90
ISSN: 1552-3829
Based on recent work that suggests that voters in proportional representation (PR) systems have incentives to cast strategic votes, the authors hypothesize that levels of strategic voting are similar in both first-past-the-post (FPTP) and PR systems. Comparing vote intentions in majoritarian elections in the United States, Mexico, Britain, and Israel to PR elections in Israel and the Netherlands, the authors find that a substantial proportion of the voters desert their most preferred candidate or party and that patterns of strategic voting across FPTP and PR bear striking similarities. In every election, smaller parties tend to lose votes to major parties. Because there tend to be more small parties in PR systems, tactical voting is actually more common under PR than under FPTP. The findings suggest that whatever the electoral system, voters focus on the policy consequences of their behavior and which parties are likely to influence policy outcomes following the election. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright holder.]
In: Comparative political studies: CPS, Band 43, Heft 1, S. 3-33
ISSN: 0010-4140
In: Comparative political studies: CPS, Band 43, Heft 1, S. 61-90
ISSN: 1552-3829
Based on recent work that suggests that voters in proportional representation (PR) systems have incentives to cast strategic votes, the authors hypothesize that levels of strategic voting are similar in both first-past-the-post (FPTP) and PR systems. Comparing vote intentions in majoritarian elections in the United States, Mexico, Britain, and Israel to PR elections in Israel and the Netherlands, the authors find that a substantial proportion of the voters desert their most preferred candidate or party and that patterns of strategic voting across FPTP and PR bear striking similarities. In every election, smaller parties tend to lose votes to major parties. Because there tend to be more small parties in PR systems, tactical voting is actually more common under PR than under FPTP. The findings suggest that whatever the electoral system, voters focus on the policy consequences of their behavior and which parties are likely to influence policy outcomes following the election.
In: International organization, Band 61, Heft 4, S. 821
ISSN: 0020-8183
In: International Series in Modern Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Vol. 20
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In: PS: political science & politics, Band 40, Heft 4, S. 639-646
ISSN: 0030-8269, 1049-0965
In: American political science review, Band 101, Heft 3, S. 393-408
ISSN: 0003-0554
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In: PS: political science & politics, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 115-122
ISSN: 0030-8269, 1049-0965
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 123-128
ISSN: 0030-8269, 1049-0965
In: British journal of political science, Band 42, Heft 3, S. 537-554
ISSN: 0007-1234
In: American political science review, Band 106, Heft 2, S. 348-366
ISSN: 0003-0554
World Affairs Online