Based on recent work that suggests that voters in proportional representation (PR) systems
have incentives to cast strategic votes, the authors hypothesize that levels of strategic voting …

An increasingly influential line of research on media effects suggests that some of the effects
of news media on society take place because people perceive media as influential. In this …

This paper uses laboratory experiments with induced values to address fundamental issues
related to the incentive compatibility of choice experiment value elicitation questions. In …

A central tenet of electoral systems' research is that more parties should get votes in districts
with large magnitudes than in districts with smaller magnitudes. This proposition is largely …

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 …

In districts where only one seat is contested, the electoral formula (plurality or majority)
should be a major determinant of the number of parties that receive votes. Specifically …

Every presidential election offers interesting questions for analysis, but some elections are
more puzzling than others. The election of 2004 involves two linked and countervailing …

The authors test a model of strategic vote choice in which the decision to support or not to
support a candidate depends on the benefit associated with the election of a given …

The stability of voters' partisan choices from election to election is a key feature of
democratic politics, but why it varies across advanced industrial democracies and elections …

We study experimentally the properties of the majority run-off system and compare them to
those of plurality rule. Our focus is on Duverger's famous prediction that the plurality rule …