Voting in legislative elections under plurality rule

DOI10.1016/J.JET.2016.08.004zbMATH Open1371.91051OpenAlexW2155090943MaRDI QIDQ337788FDOQ337788

Authors: Niall Hughes 

Publication date: 3 November 2016

Published in: Journal of Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/82165/2/WRAP_ec-131016-hughes_jet.pdf

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zbMATH Keywords

strategic votingPoisson gamesDuverger's lawlegislative electionsplurality rule

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History, political science (91F10) Applications of game theory (91A80) Voting theory (91B12)

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• Poisson-Cournot games
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