particular they predict (i) a Polarization Effect: reduced strategic party choice when voting is voluntary makes voters more … likely to vote for extreme parties (conditional on voting at all); (ii) an Extremist Effect: voters supporting extreme … world elections. Hence, the interaction between turnout and strategic voting that has been neglected in most of the previous …

voting, where voters choose from three options. We are interested in the occurrence of strategic voting in an environment … experimental data. Our results indeed show that strategic voting arises, the extent of which depends on (i) the availability of … results show that information serves as a coordination device where strategic voting does not harm the plurality …

qualityhas been acquired or not, we compare the performance of a delegation structure with that oftwo voting procedures …. Delegation makes one's acceptance decision pivotal by definition.The decisiveness of one's vote in a voting procedure depends on …

There are many situations in which different groups make collective decisions by committee voting, where each group is … represented by a single person. Theoretical concepts suggest how the voting systems in such committees should be designed, but … these abstract rules can usually not be implemented perfectly. To find voting systems that approximate these rules the so …

There are many situations in which different groups make collective decisions by committee voting, with each group … represented by a single person. A natural question is what voting system such a committee should use. Concepts based on voting … the choice of voting systems based on such theoretical concepts, in this paper, I ask which systems individuals actually …

voting behavior and how this is affected by host countries. Using unique micro-data on Chilean expatriates living in Europe … exploit local transitory shocks to the cost of voting given by the rainfall on the day of the election. We find that migrants …

I analyze Dutch panel data that contains rich information on voting, political opinions, and personality traits. I show … adversarial preferences predict voting independently from these traits - and often with larger effect sizes. The complex Dutch …-right axis, a social progressive-conservative axis, and a populism axis. Competitiveness predicts voting for economically right …