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Voting decisions are influenced by electoral systems, particularly when voters are dissatisfied. Plurality rule electoral systems tend to restrict the number of effective parties. As a consequence, people may often vote for a party not because of its attraction but because of a lack of a genuinely p...

Voting decisions are influenced by electoral systems, particularly when voters are dissatisfied. Plurality rule electoral systems tend to restrict the number of effective parties. As a consequence, people may often vote for a party not because of its attraction but because of a lack of a genuinely preferred alternative - protest voting. Similarly people will often confront specific choices between abstaining and an unsatisfactory vote in plurality rule electoral systems. The purpose of this paper is to explore the logic of protest voting and abstaining by employing a public choice approach. Adapting Hirshman’s approach to cope with the analysis of voting behaviour, this paper focuses on the variable ‘quality’ provided by political parties, named the quality-satisfying approach. This approach allows us to frame a comprehensive explanation of the choices between protest voting and abstentions, which in existing accounts often seem discrete or unrelated to each other. An empirical analysis is conducted about recent South Korean presidential elections.

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