Foundation Briefs Advanced Level Sept/Oct 2013 Brief

Also, it has been argued that

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Also, it has been argued that
compulsory voting countries and non-compulsory voting countries have the same mean voter turnout,
but differ in the prevalence of democratic institutions the compulsory- voting group has a greater
democratic presence than the voluntary voting group. A sample of countries with a greater prevalence of
democratic institutions exhibits greater sensitivity to voter preferences than a sample of basically
autocratic countries. That is, insofar as government consumption consists of public goods and redistributive transfers, democracies are more sensitive to the general needs of the populace than autocratic regimes, where greater shares of increasing gross domestic product maybe transferred to the private wealth of the ruling elite
(Yeret, 1995).

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