投票即沟通

Voting as Communicating

Review of Economic Studies · 2000
被引 172
人大 A+FT50ABS 4*

中文导读

建立模型,认为选民投票时既关心当前决策(策略性),也关心通过投票传达对最偏好候选人的看法以影响未来选举。研究发现,由于投票具有沟通功能,选举制度应促进有效沟通,例如采用两轮投票制而非一轮制。

Abstract

This paper develops a model where voters trade-off two different motives when deciding how to vote: they care about current decision-making (they are "strategic"), but they also care about communicating their views about their most-preferred candidate so as to influence future elections, by influencing other voters' opinion and/or party positioning. In effect, voters in this model are intermediate between "strategic" and "sincere" voters of conventional models in elections with more than 2 candidates. This allows us to better investigate the relative efficiency of various electoral systems: our main conclusion is that since voting is used as a communication device electoral systems should be designed to facilitate efficient communication, e.g. by opting for 2-round systems rather than 1-round systems.

投票动机策略性投票真诚投票选举制度效率