Does a voter's decision to sit out an election depend upon where others stand?

IF 2.9 2区社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Electoral Studies Pub Date : 2024-09-27 DOI:10.1016/j.electstud.2024.102864

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Abstract

This analysis uses plausibly exogenous changes in electoral boundaries to investigate how voting participation is affected by local concentrations of voters who favor majority or minority parties. Novel instrumental variable and difference-in-differences models suggest that – even while accounting for overall electoral competitiveness – participation rates increase where there exist greater concentrations of voters who support majority parties, but a similar effect is not evident for less-popular, minority parties. Furthermore, this effect is driven by spending patterns of the dominant party in the local district.

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选民是否决定不参加选举取决于其他人的立场？

本分析利用貌似外生的选区划分变化来研究投票参与度如何受到当地支持多数党或少数党的选民集中程度的影响。新颖的工具变量和差分模型表明，即使考虑到整体选举竞争力，在支持多数党的选民较为集中的地方，投票参与率也会提高，但对于支持率较低的少数党，类似的影响并不明显。此外，这种效应是由当地选区中占主导地位的政党的支出模式所驱动的。

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Electoral Studies POLITICAL SCIENCE-

CiteScore

3.40

自引率

13.00%

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审稿时长

67 days

期刊介绍： Electoral Studies is an international journal covering all aspects of voting, the central act in the democratic process. Political scientists, economists, sociologists, game theorists, geographers, contemporary historians and lawyers have common, and overlapping, interests in what causes voters to act as they do, and the consequences. Electoral Studies provides a forum for these diverse approaches. It publishes fully refereed papers, both theoretical and empirical, on such topics as relationships between votes and seats, and between election outcomes and politicians reactions; historical, sociological, or geographical correlates of voting behaviour; rational choice analysis of political acts, and critiques of such analyses.