Faced with rising levels of cross-border migration, many countries have extended local
voting rights to non-citizen residents. However, empirical evidence indicates that voter …

This practical book offers a guide to finding, choosing, and applying theoretical frameworks
to social sciences research, and provides researchers with the scaffolding needed to reflect …

Although there is a substantial difference in turnout between local and national elections, a
significant number of citizens are locally mobilised yet they do not vote in national elections …

While much research has explored factors that increase support for radical right-wing
parties, the role of their local candidates has received less attention. This study contends …

Studies of voting behavior in some settings may be hampered by poor data availability or
unsuitably large units of aggregation for reported turnout. We propose and demonstrate a …

This paper studies voter turnout and selective abstention on voting days with more than one
election or referendum. We extend the rational choice model to a setting with multiple …

This paper studies voter turnout in concurrent votes. We develop a theoretical model that
incorporates proposition salience and two types of voting costs. The first type is fixed costs of …

A expressão de que o maior partido em Portugal é o partido da abstenção, está cada vez
mais em voga e tem sido a realidade patente nos últimos atos eleitorais. Estima-se que os …