Frug, Alexander2025-10-212025-10-212025Frug A. When half a boycott makes a winner: on Eurovision voting. Econ Lett. 2025;256:112639. DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2025.1126390165-1765http://hdl.handle.net/10230/71615Boycotts are meant to isolate. A pushback -however small- is almost always inevitable. In settings with many alternatives, boycott tends to be diffuse, while counter-support is concentrated. This asymmetry can translate into a great advantage for the boycotted party.application/pdfeng© 2025 The Author. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).info:eu-repo/semantics/article2025-10-21http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112639BoycottWeak backlashVotingCoordination failureinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess