closet voters

Myth of Independent Voters and the Prediction of Closet Partisans’ Party Identification in Taiwan

Researchers of partisan voters have been assuming that there is a solid difference between “independent” voters and partisan voters (including leaners). This is hardly the case in the Taiwan context, a democracy with a two-party presidential system, where over 40 percent of voters are partisans, but claim to be independent in most telephone surveys.

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