Strategic voting in the 2011 and 2015 Polish Senate elections: Testing Duvergerʼs Law in the second-order elections

This article tests Duverger’s law through analysis of the Polish Senate elections in 2011 and 2015. These two elections were held under the new first-past-the-post (or single-member plurality) system, which replaced formerly used unlimited vote. The main aim of the article is to test, whether we can...

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Main Author: Maškarinec Pavel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2016-10-01
Series:Slovak Journal of Political Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/sjps.2016.16.issue-4/sjps-2016-0018/sjps-2016-0018.xml?format=INT