Monthly Archives: October 2014

Strategic voting under PR: Evidence from a survey experiment in Sweden

By Damien Bol | Published: October 22, 2014

By Annika Fredén, Lund University What is the story? In this blog, we often talk about strategic voting. As a reminder, we define strategic voting as voting for a party that is not one’s preferred party in a willingness to affect the electoral outcome. Typically, strategic voting concerns voters who prefer a party that has […]

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“Non, je ne regrette rien”: Citizens’ Reflections on Their Electoral Choices

By Damien Bol | Published: October 8, 2014

By Anja Kilibarda and André Blais, University of Montreal. What is the story? The MEDW survey data is well suited to exploring citizens’ ex post facto judgments about their voting decisions. In this blog post, we report the cross-national differences in respondents’ reflections on their electoral choices and systematically compare voters to abstainers. We show […]

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Cross-national patterns in early voting and time-of-voting-decision

By Damien Bol | Published: October 8, 2014

By Simon Labbé St-Vincent, University of Montreal What is the story? A perfectly rational voter waits until the very last moment of the campaign to make a decision regarding his or her vote. In doing so, he or she has the possibility to gather a maximum of information about all the parties and all the […]

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Expectations in Mass Elections: Back to the Future?

By Damien Bol | Published: October 3, 2014

By Marc Guinjoan, Universitat Pompeu Fabra What is the story? Voters’ expectations regarding electoral results are crucial in democratic elections. To make an informed choice, voters should be able to evaluate the chances of winning of each political party. In a recent article, we examine whether voters were able to anticipate the result (in their […]

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