It can even be encouraged by political partys: If a party will not be
strong enough by itself to form a government, but could form a
coalition government if another party would pass the
5-percent-clause it will probably encourage tactical voting. (As
did happen in Germany in 1984)
Okay, I understand how Germany's system works now, and see how this is tactical voting. I'll try to work this in on one of the PR pages. --DanKeshet
The section of 'Elite manipulation' is inappropriately titled and, to me at least, seems to be beside the point somewhat. Yes, people can be encouraged to vote tactically, but you seem to be making unnecessary value judgements here.
- I didn't mean to make a value judgment there; I was just copying from the academic literature. (As a frequent campaign activist, I find it amusing that anybody would call me "elite".) I've changed it to something I hope will be more palatable.
Secondly, the article is a little too technical, too quickly. Without some mathematical background, I think you'd struggle to get much useful out of it. --Robert Merkel
- I'll try to factor out the game-theory discussion into appropriate pages (like the G-S theorem page) and leave this page as an overview of how tactical voting occurs in real-life elections.
- Incidentally, I've just started reading the academic literature on voting systems, and I'm now embarrassed at all the pages I've put up from the activist perspective. --DanKeshet
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