Decision period and Duverger's psychological effect in FPTP elections: Evidence from India
| Autor: | Andrei Zhirnov |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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05 social sciences Plurality rule Period duration 0506 political science Incentive Political science Voting Political economy 0502 economics and business Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration Institution 050207 economics Period (music) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Electoral Studies. 58:21-30 |
| ISSN: | 0261-3794 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.electstud.2019.01.004 |
| Popis: | The plurality rule creates incentives that can divert the vote from the third parties. I argue that the process that converts such Duvergerian incentives into the Duvergerian outcomes has a temporal dimension: both strategic and non-strategic voters need time to form and communicate their preferences over candidates. To examine this connection, I capitalize on the institution of phased voting in India. I treat the timing of the district vote as the endpoint of the campaign period in the district and evaluate its effect on the vote for the leaders and the third parties, the third parties’ vote share, and the vote concentration. I find a positive effect of campaign period duration on the extent of the observed strategic behaviors in the district. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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