Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Strategic voting means voting for your most preferred candidate who has an unrealistic chance of winning.
2. Duverger’s hypothesis states that proportional representation electoral rules favor multiparty systems.
3. The results of empirical tests of Duverger’s theory show that increasing ethnic heterogeneity always leads to more legislative parties, regardless of the permissiveness of the electoral system.
4. Duverger’s theory predicts that if a country with a homogeneous society (few cleavages) uses permissive electoral rules, then it will have many parties.
5. Duverger’s theory predicts that if a country with a homogeneous society (few cleavages) uses disproportional electoral rules, then it will have many parties.


1. False
2. True
3. False
4. False
5. False

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