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 …

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 …

This essay reviews models of strategic mobilization and turnout, focusing on two important
questions about the effects of electoral rules. First, how does the disproportionality of the …

Middle-aged to senior men of the ethnic majority and higher income groups are generally
overrepresented in parliaments. While research on group representation has examined …

How do we make democracy more equal? Although in theory, all citizens in a democracy
have the right to participate in politics, time-consuming forms of participation often …

Competition among candidates or parties is a necessary condition for democracy. But who
counts as a candidate and what counts as competition? The influence of money in American …

Many studies find that voter turnout is higher in proportional representation (PR) elections
than in plurality elections, but because the two systems differ in multiple ways and are used …

By altering the turnout decision calculus, compulsory voting should alter the character of the
voting population. Employing survey data across countries and Swiss cantons, I examine …

The concept of electoral competition plays a central role in many subfields of political
science, but no consensus exists on how to measure it. One key challenge is how to …

Based on voter survey from European election study 2009, we examine the impact of one
individual-level motivational factor, ie interest in politics, and its interactions with institutional …