Support for Strategic Voting Campaigns: Evidence from a Survey Experiment During the German General Election of 2021

Abstract Although strategic voting is common in the first tier of German electoral system, large-scale campaigns designed to foster have rarely been observed Germany. This changed General Election 2021 when left-wing organization Campact ran several districts supporting most promising candidate order impede election a more right-wing candidate. Especially, Campact’s campaign favor SPD Frank Ullrich, with goal impeding controversial CDU Hans-Georg Maaßen, received much public attention. Drawing on this case as an example, I address question how Green voters evaluate such campaigns. To do so, conducted survey experiment which different information about provided voters. find that providing system does not increase support for campaign. However, react party cue, i.e., they become favorable towards know Party supported