Strategic Voting in Hungarian Elections of 2014: Evidence for Duverger's Law under the Compensatory Mixed Electoral System?

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Strategic Voting in Hungarian Elections of 2014: Evidence for Duverger's Law under the Compensatory Mixed Electoral System?

Original language description

This article tests Duverger&apos;s law through an analysis of the Hungarian parliamentary elections of 2014 which were held under the new compensatory mixed electoral system. The results show that while a strategic voting had a tendency to grow under Hungarian supermixed system in the period 1990-2010, in the elections of 2014 strategic voting was not a universal phenomenon under the plurality rule, as indicated by many violations of Duverger&apos;s law in Hungarian singlemember districts. Our research confirmed that the effect of electoral institutions (institutional structure) is contingent and at the district level inhibited by country-specific conditions. However, as a new Hungarian compensatory mixed electoral system distributes seats not only by plurality rule in SMDs (nominal tier), but also via proportional representation (list tier), a further research should pay attention to crosscontamination of both tiers of electoral system, as a potential factor which moves Hungarian electoral competition substantially away from Duvergerian predictions.

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Studia Politica. Romanian Political Science Review

ISSN

1582-4551

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Volume of the periodical

18

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

RO - ROMANIA

Number of pages

26

Pages from-to

9-34

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85049256366