Foundation Briefs Advanced Level Sept/Oct 2013 Brief
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| Sept/Oct 2013 Neg Counters Doesn’t Increase Knowledge foundationbriefs.com Page 85 of 104 CV does not Increase Voter Interest, JMR Rovensky, Jan. Voting A Citizens Right, or Duty The Case against Compulsory Voting. Guido Carli Free International University for Social Studies. 2007. Pg 90. The same amount of doubt is present in the assumption that compulsory voting will increase the interest expressed by participation) of people in politics though Engelen and Hooghe (2007: 13-5) support the institution of compulsory voting, their research shows that CV does not in the European context seem to produce a higher than average political interest, nor does it boost feelings of political efficacy. Turning yet again to the Australian context Ballinger (2006: 14) cites data which clearly demonstrates that there is virtually no difference in the engagement, or rather disengagement, amongst young voters when comparing young Australians with young Britons. Obviously such a question would seem irrelevant in Australia where turnout is obligatory, however the cited research shows that if CV were to be abolished, only half of 16-18 year-olds would vote (as opposed to 87% if participation is compulsory) and overall turnout in Australia would fall to the region of 50-60% (Jackman 1999: 46) even after more than eighty years of compulsory voting a loss of around 30% of voters would result in the abolishing of compulsory voting in Belgium (Hooghe and Pelleriaux 1998), Brazil or Venezuela (Power and Timmons Roberts 1995) – in other words, CV does not create the voting norm or lastingly shape behaviour, as Hill and Louth (2004: 26) confidently claim though in the same article they concede that it were doubtful ... that the voting habit would stay with us without the strong incentive of law (Ibid: 9). The Netherlands experienced such noticeable declines (around 15% on average) after the abolition of compulsory voting laws in 1970, yet even nowadays turnout still remains around the 80 percentile mark, i.e. more than the average of some current CV countries. Download 0.95 Mb. Share with your friends:
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