Can governments that introduce extreme austerity measures survive elections? Contrary to
economic voting expectations, the PASOK government in Greece initially appeared to cope …

I advance a theory about how compulsory voting affects the behavior of political parties. The
theory suggests that parties will pivot toward programmatic vote‐seeking strategies and …

Is voting out of fashion? Does it matter if voters don't show up at the polls? If yes, is legal
enforcement of voting compatible with democracy? These are just a few of the questions …

As several of the other contributions in this book will show, Belgium's electoral system is
idiosyncratic in many ways but one of its defining characteristics is its reliance on …

Partisan identification is intimately related to many central aspects of political behavior. It
influences vote choice, voters' policy positions, and the manner in which voters process new …

Compulsory voting is a law, enacted against low turnout rates in elections in modern
democracies and political inequality in society. However, the fact that voting is closely …

La presente tesis se enfoca en el análisis jurídico e histórico del derecho al sufragio y su
obligatoriedad en el marco de la Constitución Política del Perú de 1993. Los conceptos …

Hak memilih dikatakan sebagai sifat utama demokrasi, yaitu untuk memilih wakil yang
melakukan pembuatan, perubahan, dan penghapusan suatu peraturan perundang …

Nigeria's electoral body, the independent national electoral commission (INEC), deployed a
novel information technology (IT) based voter accreditation technology in 2015. Benefits …

This chapter examines how the practice of compulsory voting was debated in Belgium and
France at the turn of the twentieth century. Two principal arguments in favour of compulsory …