Who are the internet voters? An age, period and cohort analysis of e-voting use

IF 2.9 2区社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Electoral Studies Pub Date : 2025-03-27 DOI:10.1016/j.electstud.2025.102923

Moulay Lablih , Pascal Sciarini

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Abstract

Existing research highlights age-related differences in internet voting but fails to disentangle the underlying effects. We conduct an age, period and cohort (APC) analysis of e-voting use on a unique set of registered, panel data covering 46 ballots in Switzerland between 2004 and 2019. Our findings reveal a joint influence of cohort and age effects on the likelihood of voting online. Voters born between the mid-1960s and mid-1980s display the highest e-voting rates, surpassing both younger and older cohorts. However, within these intermediate cohorts, e-voting usage declines notably with age. In contrast, age exerts little to no influence on e-voting among the youngest cohort (born in the 1990s) and the oldest cohorts (1930s and 1940s), with usage nearing zero for the latter group. These results refine our understanding of how age influences e-voting adoption and help to evaluate its potential to increase voter turnout.

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谁是互联网选民？电子投票使用的年龄、时期和队列分析

现有的研究强调了网络投票中与年龄相关的差异，但未能理清潜在的影响。我们对2004年至2019年在瑞士进行的46张选票进行了年龄、时期和群体（APC）分析。我们的研究结果揭示了队列效应和年龄效应对在线投票可能性的共同影响。上世纪60年代中期至80年代中期出生的选民显示出最高的电子投票率，超过了年轻人和老年人。然而，在这些中间人群中，电子投票的使用随着年龄的增长而显著下降。相比之下，年龄对最年轻的人群（90后）和最年长的人群（30年代和40年代）的电子投票几乎没有影响，后者的使用量接近于零。这些结果完善了我们对年龄如何影响电子投票采用的理解，并有助于评估其增加选民投票率的潜力。

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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.