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oapen-20.500.12657-259322023-11-15T09:17:26Z The Many Faces of Strategic Voting Aldrich, John Blais, André Stevenson, Laura B. Political Science strategic voting voting systems electoral systems proportional representation voter expectation tactical voting Voters do not always choose their preferred candidate on election day. Often they cast their ballots to prevent a particular outcome, as when their own preferred candidate has no hope of winning and they want to prevent another, undesirable candidate’s victory; or, they vote to promote a single-party majority in parliamentary systems, when their own candidate is from a party that has no hope of winning. In their thought-provoking book The Many Faces of Strategic Voting, Laura B. Stephenson, John H. Aldrich, and André Blais first provide a conceptual framework for understanding why people vote strategically, and what the differences are between sincere and strategic voting behaviors. Expert contributors then explore the many facets of strategic voting through case studies in Great Britain, Spain, Canada, Japan, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and the European Union. 2019-02-05 23:55 2020-03-12 03:00:33 2020-04-01T10:55:05Z 2020-04-01T10:55:05Z 2018 book 1004149 OCN: 1100539015 9780472901128 9780472131020 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25932 eng application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 1004149.pdf external_content.epub University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.9946117 10.3998/mpub.9946117 e07ce9b5-7a46-4096-8f0c-bc1920e3d889 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780472901128 9780472131020 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Ann Arbor 102039 KU Select 2018: HSS Frontlist Books Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Voters do not always choose their preferred candidate on election day. Often they cast their ballots to prevent a particular outcome, as when their own preferred candidate has no hope of winning and they want to prevent another, undesirable candidate’s victory; or, they vote to promote a single-party majority in parliamentary systems, when their own candidate is from a party that has no hope of winning. In their thought-provoking book The Many Faces of Strategic Voting, Laura B. Stephenson, John H. Aldrich, and André Blais first provide a conceptual framework for understanding why people vote strategically, and what the differences are between sincere and strategic voting behaviors. Expert contributors then explore the many facets of strategic voting through case studies in Great Britain, Spain, Canada, Japan, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and the European Union.
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