The Motivation to Vote: Explaining Electoral Participation Blais Andr
The Motivation to Vote: Explaining Electoral Participation Blais Andr Elections are at the heart of our democracy. They argue that the decision to vote or abstain hinges on answers to four key…
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The Motivation to Vote: Explaining Electoral Participation Blais Andr
Elections are at the heart of our democracy. They argue that the decision to vote or abstain hinges on answers to four key questions: Do I like politics? Understanding citizens' decisions to vote or to abstain in elections is crucial, especially when turnout in so many established democracies is declining.In The Motivation to Vote, Andr Blais and Jean-Fran ois Daoust provide an original and elegant model for why people vote.
Do I care about the outcome? Do I have a duty to vote? Is it easy to vote?
These considerations make sense of people's turnout decision most of the time, in a wide variety of contexts, and are strongly supported by empirical evidence from elections in five countries (Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, and France).The authors also test alternative explanations of voter turnout by looking at contextual factors and the role of habit, but find little
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