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The many faces of strategic voting : tactical behavior in electoral systems around the world
\"Strategic voting is classically defined as \"voting for one's second preferred option to prevent one's least preferred option from winning when one's first preference has no chance.\" Voters want their votes to be effective, and casting a ballot that will have no influence on an election is undesirable--therefore, some voters cast a strategic ballot when they decide it is useful. This edited volume includes case studies of strategic voting behavior in Israel, Germany, Japan, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland, Canada, and the UK, and provides a conceptual framework for understanding strategic voting behavior in all types of electoral systems. The classic definition explicitly considers strategic voting in a single race with a single winner, which has at least three candidates. This situation is more common in electoral systems that have single member districts that employ plurality or majoritarian electoral rules and have multiparty systems. Indeed, much of the literature on strategic voting to date has considered systems like those in Canada and the United Kingdom. This book contributes to a more general understanding of strategic voting behavior by taking into account a wide variety of institutional contexts, such as single transferable vote rules, proportional representation, two round and mixed electoral systems\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Political Leaders and Democratic Elections
Outcomes of legislative elections are typically reported in terms of party support: how many votes and seats were obtained by each party? But in fact voters are faced with three choices which must be folded into one. They must decide which party they prefer, but in so doing they must take account of the policies advocated by these parties and the leaders who will eventually have to enact them. This simple fact raises question about the relative weight of these considerations, and especially the importance granted to the leaders. This issue has been largely neglected in the vast literature on voting behaviour. The dominant traditions in the study of voting behaviour focus on political parties and party identification; and on political issues and ideology, respectively. This book uses election surveys over the past fifty years to assess systematically the impact of political leaders on voting decisions in nine democracies (Australia, Britain, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the United States). It analyses issues such as the changes in political communication (particularly the rise of televised politics), and the relative importance accorded to political leaders in different types of political systems. It demonstrates how electoral systems and other political institutions have a discernible effect on the importance that voters accord to actual political leaders. Contrary to popular wisdom, this book shows how unimportant the characteristics of political leaders, parties, and indeed the voters themselves actually are on voting patterns. In fact, the volume shows, voters tend to let themselves be guided by the leaders they like rather than being pushed away from those they dislike.
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