Sept/Oct 2013
Aff: Turnout Inequality Harms Democracy
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Unequal turnout reinforces gaps in privilege, DAT 9/9 pm
Lever, Annabelle. Compulsory Voting A Critical Perspective British Journal of
Political Science (2009).
It is not news that turnout has been declining inmost democracies since the Second World War. However, the association of low turnout with unequal turnout maybe less well known, and its significance less clearly appreciated. For example, in the last two General Elections in Britain the participation gap between manual and non-manual workers more than doubled from around 5% into around 11% in 2005. Likewise, between
the sand the difference in turnout between the top and bottom quartile of earners grew from
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