13NFL1-Compulsory Voting
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REDUCES OTHER CIVIC PARTICIPATION
COMPULSORY VOTING REDUCES OTHER FORMS OF SOCIETAL ENGAGEMENT.
Krister Lundell
– 2012. CIVIC PARTICIPATION AND POLITICAL TRUST THE IMPACT OF COMPULSORY VOTING Representation, 48:2, 221-234. We can, hence, conclude that there is no spillover effect from electoral participation to civic engagement. On the contrary, the analysis suggests that the legal obligation to participate in elections negatively affects other forms of societal engagement. Presumably, to some extent the positive and negative effects of compulsory voting cancel each other out. There are certainly those who get inspired and take interest in political and societal activities because of the citizen duty to participate in elections. To a greater extent, however, compulsory voting seems to generate societal disillusion and an antipathetic attitude towards other forms of societal participation Thus, good things do not go together here
—a high level of electoral participation through the institution of compulsory voting is not accompanied by a high level of civic participation.
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