Journal article
Strategic voting in British elections
Electoral Studies, Vol.25(1), pp.1-19
2006
DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2005.02.008
Abstract
In this paper we examine the extent to which voters engage in strategic behavior. Our contribution is accounting for the context in which voters have the opportunity to behave in a strategic fashion. We also demonstrate that previous measures of strategic voting significantly underestimated the willingness of voters to engage in strategic behavior when presented with the opportunity to do so. We use as cases for our study of strategic voting behavior two recent elections in Britain, the 1987 and 1997 general elections. Our analysis produces estimates of strategic voting in these elections that are substantially greater than reported in previous research.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Strategic voting in British elections
- Creators
- R. Michael Alvarez - California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 228-77, Pasadena, CA 91125, USAFrederick J Boehmke - University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USAJonathan Nagler - New York University, New York, NY, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Electoral Studies, Vol.25(1), pp.1-19
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.electstud.2005.02.008
- ISSN
- 0261-3794
- eISSN
- 1873-6890
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2006
- Academic Unit
- Public Policy Center (Archive); Political Science
- Record Identifier
- 9983982926402771
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