Testing Duverger's law: strategic voting in Mongolian elections, 1996?2004

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1060586X.2015.1119553" target="_blank" >10.1080/1060586X.2015.1119553</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Testing Duverger's law: strategic voting in Mongolian elections, 1996?2004

Original language description

Recent empirical research on voting in single-member districts, based on extensive data-sets of election results, has demonstrated the general (although not universal) validity of Duverger?s law (i.e. that the average outcome under plurality rule is generally consistent with two-party competition). This article tests Duverger?s law through analysis of a data-set covering Mongolian parliamentary elections in the period of 1996?2004. The results show consistent, but not linear, movement towards the Duvergerian equilibrium in Mongolia, with large part of the districts conforming to the Duvergerian norm of two-party competition. Duverger treated his law merely as an important tendency but insisted that social forces are the main determinants of the number of political parties. The main factor that limited Mongolian voters? rationality, and created problems with their strategic ability to distinguish and abandon hopeless candidates, was weak institutionalization of the Mongolian party system. Finally, I prove that the emergence of bipolar party politics was not an immediate process and will continue over a series of elections, supporting the so-called ?learning hypothesis.?

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Post-Soviet Affairs

ISSN

1060-586X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

33

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

145-160

UT code for WoS article

000396766200004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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