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Pivotal Voting

Howard Margolis

A voter only alters the outcome of an election if her/his vote is pivotal. A leading innovation of recent years in game theory applied to politics is Austen-Smith and Banks' analysis of pivotal voting, yielding a special form of strategic voting such that rational voters would vote against the side they favor if the decision were to be made by their vote alone. This note gives a non-mathematical version of the ASB argument, and explains why the result requires conditions which, in fact, are unlikely ever to be observed under actual conditions of social choice.

Key Words: pivotal voting • strategic voting

Journal of Theoretical Politics, Vol. 13, No. 1, 111-116 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/0951692801013001007
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