Five reasons to vote in a safe seat

Birch, J.

(3 December 2019) Five reasons to vote in a safe seat. British Politics and Policy at LSE.

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Why bother to vote in a safe seat, knowing your vote won’t make a difference to that constituency’s outcome? Jonathan Birch offers five key reasons why voting makes a difference to the legitimacy and stability of parliamentary democracy, even when individual seats don’t change hands.

Item Type	Blog post
Copyright holders	© 2019 The Author(s)
Departments	LSE > Academic Departments > Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
Date Deposited	27 Feb 2020
URI	https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/103592

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Birch, Jonathan

JA Political science (General)
JN Political institutions (Europe)

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