made it very difficult to document strategic behavior empirically. Exploiting the incentive structure of Germany's voting … system to solve the fundamental identification problem, this paper estimates the extent of strategic voting in large, real …-world elections. The evidence indicates that approximately 35% of voters abandon their most preferred candidate if she is not in …

policymakers through democratic elections. Elections perform at least three different functions: (i) to discipline the elected …

incumbent and select a competent candidate to be in office. We focus on elections which take place repeatedly as the basic …

This paper presents a theoretical model of rational retrospective voting, which is tested empirically on pooled cross …

copious corruption not only decreases incumbent support in local elections in Mexico, but also decreases voter turnout …

voting procedure. First we show that every non-dictatorial voting procedure that satisfies unanimity, is open to strategic … strategic candidacy effects. We show that the equilibrium set of outcomes of the well-known voting by successive elimination …

Data from US presidential elections show that most third parties take extreme positions rather than positions between … those of the major partie. This and other phenomena are explained with an extension of the Downsian model of voting. When …

conformity exerted a strong, persistent, and predictable influence on voting in national elections from 1991 to 2003. This … analysis examines how the effect of social conformity on Russian voters might have changed from earlier elections as a result … aligns with the interests of voters, and whether this type of analysis can speak to fairness of the elections. …