Previous cross-national research on voter turnout has focused attention primarily on
Western industrial democracies, with relatively little attention paid to turnout in developing …

▪ Abstract Why is turnout higher in some countries and/or in some elections than in others?
Why does it increase or decrease over time? To address these questions, I start with the …

Scholars and policy makers have advanced conflicting hypotheses about the dynamics of
voter participation in nascent democratic regimes. The authors advance the research …

For more than 40 years, studies trying to explain macro-level electoral turnout have been
one of the pillars of political behavioural research. From January 2004 to December 2013 …

Previous studies of electoral participation in Latin America have focused on the political and
institutional factors that influence country differences in the aggregate level of turnout. This …

This paper tests two neo-institutional explanations of voter turnout using data from new
democracies. The first part of the paper deals with institutions as “political arenas”—rules …

Conventional wisdom holds that higher turnout favors Democrats. Previous studies of this
hypothesis rely on presidential and House elections or on survey data, but senatorial and …

Research about voter turnout has expanded rapidly in recent years. This article takes stock
of this development by extending the meta-analysis of Geys (2006) in two main ways. First …

There are two contending accounts of cross-national variation in voter turnout rates. One
emphasizes the role of institutions and electoral attributes, whereas the other stresses …

Voter turnout has puzzled political scientists ever since Anthony Downs postulated the
paradox of voting. Despite decades of research aiming to understand what drives citizens to …