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In political science, economic voting is a theoretical perspective which argues that voter behavior is heavily influenced by the economic conditions in their country at the time of the election. According to the classical form of this perspective, voters tend to vote more in favor of the incumbent candidate and party when the economy is doing ...
Voting behavior is significantly influenced by retrospective assessments of government performance, which should be differentiated from the influence of policy issues. [43] Different opinions on what the government ought to do are involved in policy concerns, which are prospective or based on what will happen.
The term issue voting describes when voters cast their vote in elections based on political issues. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In the context of an election, issues include "any questions of public policy which have been or are a matter of controversy and are sources of disagreement between political parties ."
Their empirical evaluation was based on two elections, the 2009 European Election Survey of 8 candidates by 972 voters, [8] and the Voter Autrement poll of the 2017 French presidential election, including 26,633 voters and 5 candidates. [9])
Prediction markets show very accurate forecasts of an election outcome. One example is the Iowa Electronic Markets. In a study, 964 election polls were compared with the five US presidential elections from 1988 to 2004. Berg et al. (2008) showed that the Iowa Electronic Markets topped the polls 74% of the time. [11]
In a voting system that uses multiple votes (Plurality block voting), the voter can vote for any subset of the running candidates. So, a voter might vote for Alice, Bob, and Charlie, rejecting Daniel and Emily. Approval voting uses such multiple votes. In a voting system that uses a ranked vote, the voter ranks the candidates in order of ...
In Hungary, during the 2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, several websites, such as taktikaiszavazas.hu [30] (meaning "strategic voting"), promoted the idea to vote for opposition candidates with the highest probability of winning a given seat. About a quarter of opposition voters adopted this behavior, resulting in a total of 498,000 extra ...
Ranked voting methods, all election methods that involve ranking candidates in order of preference (American literature) Instant-runoff voting and single transferable vote, referred to as "preferential voting" in Australia by way of conflation; Bucklin voting, similarly conflated during the Progressive Era; Optional preferential voting