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This paper presents a model of costly voting under plurality rule that omits parties as strategic actors and implies Duverger's Law and positive turnout. The model demonstrates that strategic voting reduces the number of parties that receive votes under plurality rule to two or less while positive costs to vote increases the number to more than one. The two assumptions taken together lead to exactly two parties receiving votes.
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