We investigate strategic voting at German Bundestag elections. The common intuition about
strategic voting holds that supporters of small party candidates split their ticket and cast a …

Using data from the UK General Election Surveys of 1983 and 1987, we present a critical
test of different approaches to tactical voting. Specifically, we are concerned with how the …

Canada seems to refute Duverger's Law by sustaining more than two political parties in a
plurality system, suggesting that Canadian voters do not utilize the “wasted vote” calculus …

We estimate a model of strategic voting and quantify the impact it has on election outcomes.
Because the model exhibits multiplicity of outcomes, we adopt a set estimator. Using …

Is the rational-choice paradigm more than a mere tautology when applied to the study of
voting or can it generate refutable propositions that cannot be deduced or inferred from other …

In their article 'Constituency Characteristics, Individual Characteristics and Tactical Voting in
the 1987 British General Election', Niemi, Whitten and Franklin claim that in the 1987 …

In a recent Note we investigated the incidence of tactical voting in the British election of
1987. A major hypothesis was that in situations where it made sense (ie, in which voters …

Formal political theory has raised serious doubts about the existence of strategic voting, and
this in turn has challenged the prevailing wisdom in comparative politics about phenomena …

At the end of this series of comments, rejoinders and second thoughts on tactical voting it
may not be entirely clear what is actually in dispute. The aim of this Note, therefore, is simply …

We report on laboratory experiments on voting. In a setting where subjects have single-
peaked preferences, we find that the rational choice theory provides very good predictions of …