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| 13NFL1-Compulsory Voting Page 57 of 163 www.victorybriefs.com INCREASES VOTER TURNOUT CROSS-NATIONAL EVIDENCE SHOWS THAT COMPULSORY VOTING INCREASES VOTER TURNOUT. Simon Jackman 01, [Assitant Professor and Victoria Schuck Faculty Scholar, Department of Political Science, Stanford Unviersity], "Compulsory Voting, Internet Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2001. http://jackman.stanford.edu/papers/cv.pdf Even a casual inspection of compendiums of aggregate turnout statistics revealshigher turnout among countries with CV. For instance, a recent collectionof data on voter turnout in 171 countries finds turnout about six or sevenpercentage points higher in 24 countries with some form of CV than in countrieswithout CV (IDEA 1997, 32). Multivariate statistical analyses typically find CV tohave larger impacts on turnout, controlling for other institutional and politicalvariables that affect turnout. Lijphart’s (1997) review finds CV associated witha boost in turnout rates of seven to sixteen percentage points for examplesof the studies reviewed, see Powell (1981), Jackman (1987), Jackman and Miller, and Franklin (1999), the latter study being distinctive for including anindividual-level analysis, exploiting survey data from European Union countries.Among Latin American countries, the estimated turnout boost associated withCV is roughly eleven to seventeen percentage points (Fornos 1996). Theseresults are striking considering (a) large cross-national differences in institutionaland political characteristics of these countries that impact turnout (e.g., Jackman’s1987 study considered competitiveness of elections, electoral disproportionality,number of political parties, unicameralism vs bicameralism, but found CV tohave the largest impact on turnout of all these institutional features) and (b)considerable variability in the enforcement of CV among those countries thatostensibly have CV. Download 2 Mb. Share with your friends:
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