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 …

Why was compulsory voting (CV) adopted in a moment when the Left was mobilized and
enfranchisement was extended? We answer this apparent paradox by developing an …

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 …

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the youth voting behavior considering
how cultural factors, ethnicity, intergenerational factors, political ideologies and legal literacy …

We employ proprietary data from a large bank to analyze how–during crisis–deposit
insurance affects depositor behavior. Our focus is on Belgium where the government …

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 …