POL 140D Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Tactical Voting, Switched Multi-Megabit Data Service, Presidential System
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If you don"t have information, you can"t behave strategically, and there are more parties. In new democracies we don"t see these strategic behavior patterns. D"s law doesn"t apply well to new democracies. Might not have information voters might not care about affecting the particular election. Study looks at interactive relationship between diversity, rules, and n: clark and golder use the following variables: G: effective number of ethnic groups (measure in same way as n) in a given country. Nv: effective number of electoral parties in a given country: we would expect more g to lead to higher nv under permissive rules; and no relationship under restrictive rules. They found this to be true in their study: problem with the measurement being used in their study: in a given country > they used the national level instead of the district level. D"s law only works at the district level; district level phenomenon.