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Party-crashers or wallflowers? The lack of strategic voting in experimental primaries

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  • Calvin Blackwell
  • Peter T. Calcagno

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Open and semi-open primaries allow members of opposing political parties to participate in the selection of candidates for the general election. This feature has led to the claim that partisans will ‘cross-over’ and vote in the rival party’s primary, thereby sabotaging that party’s selection process. Using an experimental election, in which it is costly to vote, we find that most voters vote sincerely or not at all, and find little evidence of strategic voting.

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  • Calvin Blackwell & Peter T. Calcagno, 2019. "Party-crashers or wallflowers? The lack of strategic voting in experimental primaries," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(19), pages 1641-1648, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:26:y:2019:i:19:p:1641-1648
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2019.1591585
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    1. Bose, Paul, 2021. "Political (self-)selection and competition: Evidence from U.S. Congressional elections," VfS Annual Conference 2021 (Virtual Conference): Climate Economics 242377, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.

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