Voters do not always choose their preferred candidate on election
day. Often they cast their ballots to prevent a particular outcome,
as when their own preferred candidate has no hope of winning and
they want to prevent another, undesirable candidate's victory; or,
they vote to promote a single-party majority in parliamentary
systems, when their own candidate is from a party that has no hope
of winning. In their thought-provoking book The Many Faces of
Strategic Voting, Laura B. Stephenson, John H. Aldrich, and Andr�
Blais first provide a conceptual framework for understanding why
people vote strategically, and what the differences are between
sincere and strategic voting behaviors. Expert contributors then
explore the many facets of strategic voting through case studies in
Great Britain, Spain, Canada, Japan, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland,
and the European Union.