0 the act of voting for a political party or person that you would not usually support in order to prevent another party or person from winning
To this extent, two claims can be made about tactical voting in three-party competition.
The definition of tactical voting developed here is designed to express the insights from rational choice theory in a language that can be commonly understood.
Thus, tactical voting should ideally be measured directly, rather than indirectly.
The existence of this group is also an indication of the importance of information on motivations for vote choice in a measure of tactical voting.
The assumption is simply necessary to elucidate the nature of tactical voting under rational choice theory.
A measure of tactical voting based on strength-of-feeling scores can misclassify respondents in two ways.
Of course there are some situations in which tactical voting, even mass tactical voting, is justified.
The translation of the definition of tactical voting to other electoral systems is more complicated.
