The two-party system under alternative voting procedures
A Dellis - Social Choice and Welfare, 2013 - Springer
Social Choice and Welfare, 2013•Springer
Countries that elect their policy-makers by means of Plurality Voting tend to have a two-party
system. This observation can be explained by the strategic behavior of voters. This article
derives two broad classes of voting procedures under which strategic voting behavior
induces a two-party system under standard assumptions on voter preferences. One class
consists of the voting procedures with unique top-score, ie, under which a voter can cast a
top-score vote for only one candidate (eg, Plurality Voting, Borda Count). The other class …
system. This observation can be explained by the strategic behavior of voters. This article
derives two broad classes of voting procedures under which strategic voting behavior
induces a two-party system under standard assumptions on voter preferences. One class
consists of the voting procedures with unique top-score, ie, under which a voter can cast a
top-score vote for only one candidate (eg, Plurality Voting, Borda Count). The other class …
Abstract
Countries that elect their policy-makers by means of Plurality Voting tend to have a two-party system. This observation can be explained by the strategic behavior of voters. This article derives two broad classes of voting procedures under which strategic voting behavior induces a two-party system under standard assumptions on voter preferences. One class consists of the voting procedures with unique top-score, i.e., under which a voter can cast a top-score vote for only one candidate (e.g., Plurality Voting, Borda Count). The other class consists of the voting procedures that permit truncated ballots, i.e., under which voters do not have to cast all their votes (e.g., Approval Voting). This analysis suggests that the key for strategic voting behavior to induce a two-party system is that voters can always cast a different score for the two candidates they rank first and second on their ballots.
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