POL 140D Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Tactical Voting, Hybrid System, Open List
30 Aug 2016
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As a democracy becomes more established we expect sf ratios to drop. Overall established democracies have lower sf ratios, as people have already started sorting themselves among parties. Sf ratio: 1 new democracies don"t display the same psychological effects; don"t have a lot of knowledge, less experience and less knowledge, in a competitive election in new democracy voters think everyone has a shot at winning. Already know who is probably going to win, so might as well vote for preferred candidate even if isn"t going to win, more likely to vote sincerely. Sf ratio: 0 more psychological effects from the mechanical effects (information available) and there is a closer race; heavy incentive to cast a strategic vote that in an established democracy you know how to make. If you know the outcome, you have good information, voting for whoever they want doesn"t have an effect because it can"t effect the outcome so why bother.
