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Turnout in Electoral Democracies

Blais, André, Dobrzynska, Agnieszka·1998·European Journal of Political Research
DOI 10.1023/a:1006802916256
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We examine turnout in 324 democratic national lower house elections held in 91 countries, between 1972 and 1995. We rely on Freedom House ratings of political rights to determine whether an election is democratic or not. We distinguish three blocs of factors that affect turnout: the socio–economic environment, institutions, and party systems. We show that turnout is influenced by a great number of factors and that the patterns that have been shown to prevail in studies dealing with more limited samples of countries generally hold when we look at a larger set of democracies. But we also show that the socioeconomic environment, which has been downplayed in previous studies, has a substantial impact on turnout.

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Authors
Blais, A., & Dobrzynska, A.
Venue
European Journal of Political Research
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
1998-03
Volume
33
Issue
2
Pages
239-261
ISSN
  • 0304-4130 (ISSN-L)
  • 1475-6765
DOI
10.1023/a:1006802916256
OpenAlex
W2168661258
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676
References
36
FWCI
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Type
journal article
Language
en
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closed
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www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 10168 d)

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