Learning to make votes count: The role of democratic experience

Margits Tavits; Taavi Annus

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2005.02.003

Learning to make votes count: The role of democratic experience

Margits Tavits
, Taavi Annus

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This paper argues that strategic voting in young democracies increases as voters become more experienced with the functioning of democracy. This proposition is tested with election results from the democracies of Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union. The amount of wasted votes decreases with time, controlling for the number of lists running, the electoral system, the legal threshold, and the amount of votes for the leading list. The study contributes to the literature on strategic voting and democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	72-90
Number of pages	19
Journal	Electoral Studies
Volume	25
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2005.02.003
State	Published - Mar 2006

Keywords

Central and Eastern Europe
Democratic development
Learning
Voting

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