Abstract
I assume that voters mark ballots exclusively to express their true preferences among parties, leaving aside any considerations about an election’s possible outcome. The paper then analyzes the resulting voting behavior. In particular, it studies how effective different voting systems such as plurality rule, approval voting, and range voting are in fostering high turnout rates of such expressive voters.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 221-239 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Public Choice |
| Volume | 188 |
| Issue number | 1-2 |
| Early online date | 16 Jun 2020 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jul 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Open Access funding provided by Projekt DEAL. I would like to thank Eric Pacuit, Stefan Napel, two anonymous reviewers, and workshop audiences at LSE, Munich and Bayreuth for valuable feedback and suggestions. My work was partially supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) as part of the joint project Collective Attitude Formation [RO 4548/8-1], by DFG and Grantová Agentura České Republiky (GAČR) through the joint project From Shared Evidence to Group Attitudes [RO 4548/6-1], by DFG through the network grant Simulations of Social Scientific Inquiry [426833574], and by the National Science Foundation of China as part of the project Logics of Information Flow in Social Networks [17ZDA026].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, The Author(s).
Keywords
- Approval voting
- Directional voting
- Expressive voting
- Issue voting
- Proximity voting
- Range voting
- Spatial voting
- Voting theory