It All Happens at Once: Understanding Electoral Behaviour in Second-Order Elections

The second-order election (SOE) model as originally formulated by Reif and Schmitt (1980) suggests that, relative to the preceding first-order election result, turnout is lower in SOEs, government and big parties lose, and small and ideologically extreme parties win. These regularities are not stati...

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Main Author: Schmitt, Hermann (author)
Other Authors: Sanz, Alberto (author), Braun, Daniela (author), Teperoglou, Eftichia (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2020
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v8i1.2513
Country:Portugal
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