Past research suggests that voter behavior is influenced by perceptions of electoral competitiveness. For example, when an election is perceived to be close, voters will be more likely to turnout and/or cast strategic votes for their second-most preferred candidate. Operationalizing electoral competitiveness in three-candidate elections presents previously unrecognized methodological challenges. This paper first shows that many past strategies for measuring ‘closeness’ in three-candidate contests have violated at least one of three basic properties that any such measure should satisfy. We then propose a new measurement grounded in probability ratios, and prove formally that ratio-indices satisfy these axiomatic criteria. Empirical analyses ...
We report on laboratory experiments on voting. In a setting where subjects have single-peaked prefer...
The relationship between electoral competitiveness and turnout forms the foundations of understandin...
I simulate a mixture process that generates individual preferences that, when aggregated into precin...
Whether citizens vote strategically, using their votes to defeat their least-preferred candidate, or...
After Felsenthal DS, Rapoport A, Maoz Z (1988) experimental research on Duverger’s Law and Strategic...
In this thesis we extend the study of strategic voting to two frameworks that are novel to the liter...
The electoral competitiveness among candidates vying for single elected positions (e.g. president, m...
Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 2016.Cataloged from PD...
Electoral competition is a cornerstone of representative democracies. However, measuring its extent ...
Electoral competitiveness is a key explanatory construct across a broad swath of phenomena, finding ...
The electoral competitiveness among candidates vying for single elected positions (e.g. president, m...
Prior studies of strategic voting in multi-party elections potentially overestimate the extent of it...
Are voters sophisticated? Rational choice theories of voting assume they are. Students of voting beh...
Using computer simulations based on three separate data generating processes, I estimate the fractio...
Abstract: Many analyses of plurality-rule elections predict the complete coor-dination of strategic ...
We report on laboratory experiments on voting. In a setting where subjects have single-peaked prefer...
The relationship between electoral competitiveness and turnout forms the foundations of understandin...
I simulate a mixture process that generates individual preferences that, when aggregated into precin...
Whether citizens vote strategically, using their votes to defeat their least-preferred candidate, or...
After Felsenthal DS, Rapoport A, Maoz Z (1988) experimental research on Duverger’s Law and Strategic...
In this thesis we extend the study of strategic voting to two frameworks that are novel to the liter...
The electoral competitiveness among candidates vying for single elected positions (e.g. president, m...
Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 2016.Cataloged from PD...
Electoral competition is a cornerstone of representative democracies. However, measuring its extent ...
Electoral competitiveness is a key explanatory construct across a broad swath of phenomena, finding ...
The electoral competitiveness among candidates vying for single elected positions (e.g. president, m...
Prior studies of strategic voting in multi-party elections potentially overestimate the extent of it...
Are voters sophisticated? Rational choice theories of voting assume they are. Students of voting beh...
Using computer simulations based on three separate data generating processes, I estimate the fractio...
Abstract: Many analyses of plurality-rule elections predict the complete coor-dination of strategic ...
We report on laboratory experiments on voting. In a setting where subjects have single-peaked prefer...
The relationship between electoral competitiveness and turnout forms the foundations of understandin...
I simulate a mixture process that generates individual preferences that, when aggregated into precin...