Ticket-splitting and strategic voting under mixed electoral rules: Evidence from Germany
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Ticket-splitting and strategic voting under mixed electoral rules: Evidence from Germany
There is more to strategic voting than simply avoiding wasting one’s vote if one is liberated from the corset of studying voting behavior in plurality systems. Mixed electoral systems provide different voters with diverse incentives to cast a strategic vote.They not only determine the degree of strategic voting, but also the kind of strategies voters employ. Strategic voters employ either a was...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Political Research
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0304-4130,1475-6765
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6765.2006.00641.x