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Expressive and Strategic Behavior in Legislative Elections in Argentina.
- Source :
- Political Behavior; Dec2016, Vol. 38 Issue 4, p899-920, 22p
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- In this paper I study strategic voting behavior in the Argentine Senate election for the City of Buenos Aires in 2013. I estimate and analyze the voter transition matrix between the primary and general elections using a Bayesian hierarchical model for ecological inference, utilizing a rich data set of ballot box data. The results show that strategic behavior is not widespread among the electorate in Buenos Aires. In particular, at least 75 % of voters who had the opportunity to avoid vote wasting by behaving strategically did not. I also find high levels of vote wasting when analyzing other provinces during the same election cycle. These results suggest that these electorates might be composed of a mixture of voters with strategic and expressive motivations, where the expressive factions dominate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- VOTING
ELECTIONS
TACTICAL voting
VOTERS
BALLOTS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01909320
- Volume :
- 38
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Political Behavior
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 119137974
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-016-9340-1