In just two decades, the number of states that have adopted external voting policies has
boomed. Today, these policies, which allow emigrants to take part in home country elections …

A wide majority of countries acknowledge non-resident citizens' right to vote in elections in
their country of origin. However, classical turnout theories do not take into account how …

The transnational political participation of migrants has been extensively analyzed in the
literature. Previous explanations focus on individual determinants ranging from political …

Today, a large majority of states allow at least some of their emigrants to take part in home
country elections from abroad. This article first looks at the diffusion of external voting laws …

Over the past two decades, sending states have greatly increased their interest in
maintaining strong connections with their citizens abroad. The worldwide adoption of …

External voting by nonresident citizens has become an important feature of contemporary
democratic politics. However, compared to the average voter in domestic elections, we still …

States have increasingly granted voting rights to their citizens overseas. Traditional accounts
of franchise extension suggest that governments' motivations are either political (new voters …

This article explores how issues of immigration—and particularly undocumented
immigration—have evolved since the enactment of the 1986 Immigration Reform and …

While some countries lag in enacting or implementing voting rights for nationals living
outside the territory, others grant them but lag in turning rights into ballots. What explains the …

The 2012 presidential election in Mexico is significant for many reasons, not least of which is
that it returned the Partido Revolucionario Institucional to power after two Partido Acción …