Vote obligatoire

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Compulsory Voting Rules, Reluctant Voters and Ideological Proximity Voting

Ce contenu n'est pas disponible dans la langue sélectionnée. Abstract Political theorists have argued that democracies should strive for high turnout, leading to an argument for the introduction of compulsory voting, one of the surest ways to increase turnout. Others have warned that this obligation comes at a cost of lower quality votes. We investigate […] Lire la suite

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Compulsory Voting, Inequality, and Quality of the Vote

Ce contenu n'est pas disponible dans la langue sélectionnée.   Abstract   Democratic elections imply that the electorate holds incumbents accountable for past performance, and that voters select the party that is closest to their own political preferences. Previous research shows both elements require political sophistication. A number of countries throughout the world have a […] Lire la suite

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High Turnout in the Low Countries

Ce contenu n'est pas disponible dans la langue sélectionnée. Abstract We use a quasi-experimental framework to test the conventional wisdom that left-of-center parties benefit from higher turnout by analyzing the partisan effects of the abolition of compulsory voting in the Netherlands. Fixed effects, multilevel, and matching models of party family vote shares in the Netherlands […] Lire la suite