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

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.?

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.?

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50601 - Political science

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Post-Soviet Affairs

ISSN

1060-586X

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

33

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

16

Strana od-do

145-160

Kód UT WoS článku

000396766200004

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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