non-voting under a system of compulsion. Similar results were found in studies conducted in The Netherlands, a country that provides particularly compelling evidence of this closure due to the abandonment of compulsory voting in the seventies. In Australia, a number of studies addressing the question of how turnout would look under a voluntary regime conclude that a class bias would most likely benefit the more conservative Liberal-National Coalition. (486) Trend of Increasing Voter Inequality JMR
