Ethics of Strategic Voting in Popular Elections

Strategic Voting In British Elections

Strategic Voting In British Elections In this paper we examine the extent to which voters engage in strategic behavior. Our contribution is accounting for the context in which voters have the opportunity to behave in a strategic fashion. We also demonstrate that previous measures of strategic voting significantly underestimated the willingness of voters to engage in strategic behavior when pres...

Strategic Non-Voting in European Parliament Elections

Perspective Elections, information aggregation, and strategic voting

Elections have two distinct roles in society. First, they serve as a mechanism to decide policies when individuals disagree about appropriate actions. Second, they aggregate information dispersed in the population. This second role can be found even in situations where all individuals agree on the appropriate policies. The focus of this essay is on information aggregation in elections and on th...

An Influence-Based Theory of Strategic Voting in Large Elections

We consider a voting game where players’ preferences depend both on the identity of the winning candidate and on the fraction of votes each candidate receives. Players’ preferences are stochastic but, when voting, each player knows the entire profile of preferences. In this voting game, we show that the probability of having, in some equilibria, at least one player voting strategically (i.e, no...

Who Represents Whom: Strategic Voting and Conservatism in Legislative Elections∗

This paper examines voting equilibria in a citizen-candidate model with multiple constituencies. Voters in the constituencies elect representatives into a legislative assembly to make a policy choice. Representatives both make policy proposals and vote on each others’ proposals. The model thus formalizes the distinction between advocated policy and enacted policy in representation problems. Und...