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Herrera, Helios, Morelli, Massimo and Nunnari, Salvatore (2015) Turnout across democracies. American Journal of Political Science, 60 (3). pp. 607-624. doi:10.1111/ajps.12215 ISSN 0092-5853.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12215
Abstract
World democracies widely differ in legislative, executive and legal institutions. Different institutional environments induce different mappings from electoral outcomes to the distribution of power. We explore how these mappings affect voters’ participation to an election. We show that the effect of such institutional differences on turnout depends on the distribution of voters’ preferences. We uncover a novel contest effect: given the preferences distribution, turnout increases and then decreases when we move from a more proportional to a less proportional power sharing system; turnout is maximized for an intermediate degree of power sharing. Moreover, we generalize the competition effect, common to models of endogenous turnout: given the institutional environment, turnout increases in the ex-ante preferences evenness, and more so when the overall system has lower power sharing. These results are robust to a wide range of modeling approaches, including ethical voter models, voter mobilization models, and rational voter models.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General) | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Voter turnout, Proportional representation, Elections | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | American Journal of Political Science | ||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0092-5853 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 15 July 2015 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 60 | ||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 607-624 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/ajps.12215 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 19 September 2016 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 10 September 2017 |
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