The effect of ideology on policy outcomes in proportional representation systems Articles uri icon

authors

  • SINOPOLI, FRANCESCO DE
  • FERRARIS, LEO
  • IANNANTUONI, GIOVANNA

publication date

  • September 2011

start page

  • 87

end page

  • 90

issue

  • 2

volume

  • 62

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0165-4896

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1879-3118

abstract

  • In this paper we propose a model in which there are ideological and strategic voters who vote under proportional rule. We prove that the behavior of ideological voters matters for the determination of the outcome. We show that a subset of strategic voters partially counteracts the votes of the ideological voters