Board #4 - Tactical Protest Voting and Freak Elections: a formal modelling of the risks and rewards of voting against one's preferred party

• In Event: 84-301 - Poster Session: Modeling, Experiments, and Design

Brief Overview

When electoral results appear certain—such as in dominant party systems—conditional supporters of the dominant party might vote against it to signal their wavering support. Two formal models are presented to demonstrate this behaviour's rationale.

Author

• Yiyang Fang, National University of Singapore