Articles by Costas Panayotakis

November 15, 2021

Electoral systems and the futility of ‘tactical’ voting

Costas Panayotakis

Costas Panayotakis recently exposed the fiction in the ‘Every Vote Counts’ thesis. Here, he explores the implications of that fiction for different electoral systems, notably those based on Proportional Representation and First Past the Post. In so doing, he reveals the futility of tactical voting

In a democracy, does every vote count?

Costas Panayotakis

Costas Panayotakis analyses the popular claim that 'every vote counts' in a democracy. He finds it is based on false assumptions and a misunderstanding of statistical probability. Voting and democratic participation, he concludes, are not based on individualistic self-interest but on some degree of idealism and solidarity

Costas Panayotakis

Professor of Sociology, New York City College of Technology (City University of New York)

The Capitalist Mode of Destruction: Austerity, Ecological Crisis and the Hollowing Out of Democracy
Manchester University Press

Remaking Scarcity: From Capitalism’s Inefficiency to Economic Democracy
Pluto Press

The Loop

Cutting-edge analysis showcasing the work of the political science discipline at its best.