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Perceptions of Electoral Fairness and Voter Turnout
Abstract
Previous research has established a link between turnout and the extent to which voters are faced with a “meaningful” partisan choice in elections; this study extends the logic of this argument to perceptions of the “meaningfulness” of electoral conduct. It hypothesizes that perceptions of electoral integrity are positively related to turnout. The empirical analysis to test this hypothesis is based on aggregate-level data from 31 countries, combined with survey results from Module 1 of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems survey project, which includes new and established democracies. Multilevel modeling is employed to control for a variety of individual- and election-level variables that have been found in previous research to influence turnout. The results of the analysis show that perceptions of electoral integrity are indeed positively associated with propensity to vote.
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Electoral institutions and popular confidence in electoral processes: A cross-national analysis
Birch, S. (2008) · Electoral Studies · doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2008.01.005 · Cited by 280
Self-citationHow electoral integrity affects voter turnout in democracies
Martinez i Coma, F., & Trinh, M. (2017) · Australian Journal of Political Science · doi:10.1080/10361146.2016.1238869 · Cited by 24
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- Authors
- Birch, S.
- Venue
- Comparative Political Studies
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2010-07-08
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 1601-1622
- ISSN
- 0010-4140 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-3829
- OpenAlex
- W2163457301
- Cited by
- 280
- References
- 5
- FWCI
- 44.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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