Chapter 7

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Abramson, J. H. et al. (July 2009). Comparing Strategic Voting Under FPTP and PR. Comparative Political Studies 43(1). 61-90.

• How do the authors describe the scholarship on voting behavior, and what do they say is their contribution to the literature?
   
• What are their hypotheses and how do they test them?
   
• What are their results?

Bol, D. (December 2013). Electoral Reform, Values, and Party Self-Interest. Party Politics (XX)X. 1-12.

• To what perceived gap in the scholarly literature does this article respond, and what alternative model does the author propose?
   
• What hypotheses does the author formulate? What are the variables?
   
• What conclusions does he reach regarding the relevance of his model?

Verma, R. & Tripathi, V. (December 2013). Making Sense of the House: Explaining the Decline of the Indian Parliament Amidst Democratization. Studies in Indian Politics 1(2). 153-177.

• What is the problem the authors seek to address in this article? What are the “paradoxes” they identify and why do they matter?
   
• How do the authors propose to measure the problem? What are their findings?

Lupu, N. & Riedl, R. B. (November 2013) Political Parties and Uncertainty in Developing Democracies. Comparative Political Studies 46(11). 1339-1365.

• What do the authors hypothesize? What methods do they use? What are their variables?
   
• What are their key findings?