British Election Timing Data, 1900-2001

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Principal Investigator(s): Smith, Alastair

Summary: This research project explored when governments call elections and how the timing of elections influences the electoral result. In many parliamentary systems, the timing of the next election is at the discretion of the current government. Rather than waiting for the end of their term, leaders are free to call elections when it is advantageous to them and when they expect to win. This project was designed to use game theory to model how leaders decide whether to call elections based on the... (view details)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03974.v1

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