Subject: new article on open primaries and strategic voting
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 4/1/2003, 11:05 AM
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A new article offers some experimental data on sincere and strategic voting in primary elections. The authors of the study conclude that "more open primary systems generate more strategic voting, but contrary to the conventional wisdom, more open systems do not necessarily lead to more moderate election winners." The article is: Todd L. Cherry & Stephan Kroll, Crashing the Party: an experimental investigation of strategic voting in primary elections, Public Choice 114: 387-420 (2003).

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