Making Votes Count : Strategic Coordination in the World's Electoral Systems

Name: Making Votes Count : Strategic Coordination in the World\u0027s Electoral Systems
Author: Gary W. Cox
ISBN: 9781139174954

by Gary W. Cox

an item in the Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions Series

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Making Votes Count : Strategic Coordination in the World's Electoral Systems

by Gary W. Cox

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Popular elections are at the heart of representative democracy. Thus, understanding the laws and practices that govern such elections is essential to understanding modern democracy. In this book, Cox views electoral laws as posing a variety of coordination problems that political forces must solve. Coordination problems - and with them the necessity of negotiating withdrawals, strategic voting, and other species of strategic coordination - arise in all electoral systems. This book employs a unified game-theoretic model to study strategic coordination worldwide and that relies primarily on constituency-level rather than national aggregate data in testing theoretical propositions about the effects of electoral laws. This book also considers not just what happens when political forces succeed in solving the coordination problems inherent in the electoral system they face but also what happens when they fail.

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PublisherCambridge University Press

Publication DateAug. 5th, 2012

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"...this is a great book, a must for all those interested in the study of elections. Cox powerfully demonstrates the fruitfulness of looking at the impact of electoral systems from the perspective of formal theory, provided this is combined with solid empirical analysis." André Blais, Canadian Journal of Political Science

List of tables and figures
Series editor's preface
Preface
Introduction
Introduction
Duverger's propositions
Strategic Voting
On electoral systems
Strategic voting in single-member single-ballot systems
Strategic voting in multimember districts
Strategic voting in single-member dual-ballot systems
Some concluding comments on strategic voting
Strategic Entry
Strategic voting, party labels and entry
Rational entry and the conservation of disproportionality: evidence from Japan
Electoral Coordination at The System Level
Putting the constituencies together
Electoral institutions, cleavage structures and the number of parties
Coordination Failures and The Democratic Performance
Coordination failures and representation
Coordination failures and dominant parties
Coordination failures and realignments
Conclusion
Conclusion
Appendices
References
Subject index
Author index
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