Empirical comparisons of voting procedures
In: Behavioral science, Band 31, Heft 2, S. 82-88
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In: Behavioral science, Band 31, Heft 2, S. 82-88
In: Public choice, Band 48, Heft 1, S. 93-99
ISSN: 0048-5829
In: American journal of political science, Band 29, Heft 1, S. 112
ISSN: 1540-5907
In: Public choice, Band 45, Heft 1, S. 3-17
ISSN: 1573-7101
In: Mathematical social sciences, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 13-20
In: American political science review, Band 77, Heft 2, S. 420-434
ISSN: 1537-5943
Political candidates embody possibilities as well as preferences. To some extent, their possibilities vary systematically and inversely with their preferences. Political systems often have built-in "stops" preventing left-wing candidates from doing things too far to the left of their declared positions and vice versa. The preferences of right-wing candidates make them unlikely to want to pursue policies on the far left, but at least the opportunity to do so is available to them in a way that may be denied to left-wingers themselves. Taking differential possibilities into account, it might prove instrumentaily rational to vote perversely for the right-wing candidate if you really want left-wing results and vice versa. This article sketches conditions under which that proposition will hold true, shows those conditions are empirically plausible, and suggests that politicians themselves are alive to these possibilities. This awareness should make us much more cautious in reading any policy-specific mandates into electoral outcomes. It may even make us doubt the model of instrumental rationality itself.
In: The Western political quarterly, Band 36, Heft 1, S. 88-97
ISSN: 1938-274X
In: The Middle East, Heft 109, S. 23-24
ISSN: 0305-0734
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In: The Western political quarterly, Band 30, Heft 2, S. 236-254
ISSN: 1938-274X
In: Public choice, Band 29, Heft S2, S. 65-70
ISSN: 1573-7101
In: Public choice, Band 27, Heft 1, S. 115-119
ISSN: 1573-7101
In: The public opinion quarterly: POQ, Band 39, Heft 1, S. 19
ISSN: 1537-5331
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 36, Heft 4, S. 1080-1082
ISSN: 1468-2508
In: The Western political quarterly, Band 26, Heft 1, S. 90-96
ISSN: 1938-274X
In: American political science review, Band 66, Heft 2, S. 459-465
ISSN: 1537-5943