TY - JOUR
T1 - Learning to make votes count
T2 - The role of democratic experience
AU - Tavits, Margits
AU - Annus, Taavi
PY - 2006/3
Y1 - 2006/3
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Central and Eastern Europe
KW - Democratic development
KW - Learning
KW - Voting
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/33344471813
U2 - 10.1016/j.electstud.2005.02.003
DO - 10.1016/j.electstud.2005.02.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33344471813
SN - 0261-3794
VL - 25
SP - 72
EP - 90
JO - Electoral Studies
JF - Electoral Studies
IS - 1
ER -