> Well, real election results seem to suggest that even when the > pertinent information is perfect (i.e, "you're not influencing the > election unless you vote for either Bush or Gore") people will still > vote in non-strategic fashions.
Yes, but such non-strategic voting is rare. Most minor-party candidates only get a few percent of the vote. Granted, most of our third parties tend to be pretty radical (Greens are more liberal than the Dems, Constitution Party is more conservative than the GOP, Libertarians have ideological purity tests, etc.), but if enough people were willing to vote non-strategically a third party that's closer to the center would emerge. I won't venture a guess in this forum about what that party's ideology would be, but the fact that Duverger's Law holds virtually everywhere suggests that most people do vote strategically. Alex ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
