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Analysis of Crossover and Strategic Voting

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  • Alvarez, Michael R.
  • Nagler, Jonathan

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We undertake the analysis of primary elections from 1980 through 1996 using both academic individual level survey data, media exit-polls, and aggregate election returns on a county by county basis. We come to the following conclusions: 1. there is very little crossover voting in general in United States primaries; 2. the difference in the amount of crossover voting between states with open primaries and closed primaries is not substantively large; 3. the amount of strategic behavior on the part of voters is extremely small.

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  • Alvarez, Michael R. & Nagler, Jonathan, 1997. "Analysis of Crossover and Strategic Voting," Working Papers 1019, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences.
    • Handle: RePEc:clt:sswopa:1019
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