Search Results - subject:"tactical voting"

The welfare economics of tactical voting in democracies : a partial identification equilibrium analysis

Demeze, Herman; Moyouwou, Issofa; Pongou, Roland - 2016

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Green-Armytage, James - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Using computer simulations based on three separate data generating processes, I estimate the fraction of elections in which sincere voting will be a core equilibrium given each of eight single-winner voting rules. Additionally, I determine how often each voting rule is vulnerable to simple...

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On the Theory of Strategic Voting

Myatt, David P. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004

Many analyses of plurality-rule elections predict the complete coordination of strategic voting, and hence support for only two candidates. Here I suggest that stable multi-candidate support will arise in equilibrium. A group of voters must partially coordinate behind one of two challenging...

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Tactical Coordination in Plurality Electoral Systems

Myatt, David P.; Fisher, Stephen D. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2002

) and provoke tactical voting, where voters switch away from trailing parties (known as the `psychological` effect). We view … tactical voting as a coordination problem. A group of voters wish to prevent a win by a disliked party (such as the … there is no common knowledge of the game being played - tactical voting is a global game. We show that in this setting …

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Everything is Uncertain and Uncertainty is Everything: Strategic Voting in Simple Plurality Elections

Myatt, David P.; Fisher, Stephen D. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2002

Intuition tells us that strategic voting is most likely in marginal constituencies where the preferred party is a long way behind the second placed parity. Some formal theories suggest there should be complete desertion of all but two candidates (Palfrey 1989), or additionally that the second...

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