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 on invalid voting has expanded rapidly over the past few years. This review article
for the first time examines its principal findings and provides a new theoretical perspective …

In the literature, two competing claims can be found on the relationship between political
trust and political participation. While some authors argue that trust is a prerequisite for any …

As more countries grant political rights to their emigrants and more politicians look beyond
national boundaries for support, scholars are beginning to explore the drivers and …

This paper argues that corruption, threatening democratic governance in the new
democracies of Eastern Europe, is another influential determinant of voter turnout. I …

This paper proposes and tests a mechanism through which natural resources can affect
democracy. I posit that, in the presence of high natural resource rents, leaders lower the …

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 …

While some consider populist parties to be a threat to liberal democracy, others have argued
that populist parties may positively affect the quality of democracy by increasing political …

While much of the literature on voter turnout focuses on institutional and socioeconomic
factors related to the 'input'side of the political process, we examine the 'output'side, and …

There is no other country where the division between the old and young electorate is as
striking as in Chile. For older voters, turnout exceeded, on average, 90 percent in 2009; for …