Pre-election “intention to vote” has come to substitute for “reported vote” or “validated vote” in many studies of turnout. The differences among them have been little studied. In this report, we examine all three jointly in a single U.S. dataset for what we believe is the first...

This article suggests that voters rely more strongly on “substantial” criteria, such as issues and ideology, when elections are competitive. In such contexts, voters should attach more importance to their own choice and rely less on “heuristics.” Three aspects of election competitiveness...

Bicameralism introduces additional complexities into the analysis of sophisticated voting by members of parliament (MPs). The paper proposes a general game-theoretical model to assess the conditions under which MPs may engage in strategic behavior. The implications suggest that these conditions...

We propose a new voting system, satisfaction approval voting (SAV), for multiwinner elections, in which voters can approve of as many candidates or as many parties as they like. However, the winners are not those who receive the most votes, as under approval voting (AV), but those who maximize...

Legislators' votes can be recorded nominally or in aggregate, determining whether a legislator can later be held accountable for a choice. Cameral rules define one method of voting as the standard operating procedure and how to invoke any alternative voting methods. Using data from Argentina and...