Beyond TurnoutPub Date : 2021-08-03DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198832928.003.0004
Shane P. Singh
{"title":"The Correlates of Support for Compulsory Voting","authors":"Shane P. Singh","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198832928.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832928.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 4 empirically probes the relationship between attitudes toward democracy and support for compulsory voting. In doing so, it makes use of a range of public opinion surveys which ask questions about attitudes toward compulsory voting. Results demonstrate variation in the average level of support for compulsory voting across countries. They are also indicative of a systematic, negative effect of dissatisfaction with democracy, which is used to capture orientations toward democracy, on support for compulsory voting. This effect can be discerned even with controls for political interest, ideology, and a slate of demographic variables. This supports the uncomplicated but foundational expectation of the theory in Chapter 3: that those who are democratically disenchanted are also unsupportive of mandatory voting.","PeriodicalId":413271,"journal":{"name":"Beyond Turnout","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129784865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Beyond TurnoutPub Date : 2021-08-03DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198832928.003.0008
Shane P. Singh
{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"Shane P. Singh","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198832928.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832928.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"The concluding chapter reviews the findings and discusses their implications for academic research and for policymakers. It also discusses alternate ways of increasing turnout that may have fewer downstream consequences than a requirement to vote. These include: easing voter registration requirements; making it easier to vote with procedures such as early voting, online voting, and mail voting; and rewarding citizens for voting. It wraps up with reflections on the justifiability of compulsory voting in democracies.","PeriodicalId":413271,"journal":{"name":"Beyond Turnout","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115691171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Beyond TurnoutPub Date : 2021-08-03DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198832928.003.0007
Shane P. Singh
{"title":"The Effects of Compulsory Voting on Political Parties","authors":"Shane P. Singh","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198832928.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832928.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 7 test the expectations about compulsory voting’s effects on political parties. Analyses shown in the first part of the chapter leverage data from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems and the original survey data from Argentina. The results are somewhat perfunctory but suggest that parties may expend less effort mobilizing turnout under strict obligatory voting, especially of ideological moderates. The latter portion of the chapter presents multilevel analyses of data from the Comparative Manifestos Project. As anticipated in Chapter 6, it finds that mainstream parties de-emphasize ideologically salient issues in order to moderate their stances under enforced compulsory voting. It also finds some evidence that, as predicted, non-mainstream parties take more extreme positions where voters are compelled to the polls.","PeriodicalId":413271,"journal":{"name":"Beyond Turnout","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127504519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Beyond TurnoutPub Date : 2021-08-03DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198832928.003.0006
Shane P. Singh
{"title":"How Compulsory Voting Affects Parties","authors":"Shane P. Singh","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198832928.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832928.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This second theoretical chapter lays out expectations about the impact of compulsory voting on the ways in which political parties seek votes. It argues that compulsory voting’s influence depends on whether parties are situated inside or outside of the political mainstream. It first proposes that parties’ reduction of get-out-the-vote tactics under mandatory rules will be stronger if they belong to the political mainstream. It then develops expectations about mandatory voting’s influence on the ways in which parties position themselves to attract support. The chapter puts forth the hypothesis that compulsory voting incentivizes mainstream parties to move toward the center of ideological space in an effort to appeal to voting populations that are broadly reflective of society as a whole. For non-mainstream parties, alternatively, mandatory voting incentivizes vote seeking at the extremes in order to appeal to those who are cajoled to the voting booth against their will.","PeriodicalId":413271,"journal":{"name":"Beyond Turnout","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131928299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Beyond TurnoutPub Date : 2021-08-03DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198832928.003.0003
Shane P. Singh
{"title":"How Compulsory Voting Affects Individuals","authors":"Shane P. Singh","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198832928.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832928.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This first theoretical chapter develops an expectation that individuals with negative orientations toward democracy are less likely to support compulsory voting. With reference to existing theory about the psychological, attitudinal, and behavioral effects of coercion, the chapter then puts forth expectations about how compulsory voting will amplify the relationships between orientations toward democracy and support for political authorities, support for outsider or extremist parties, and political sophistication. The chapter argues that negative orientations are more likely to be predictive of “antidemocratic” attitudes and behaviors, as well as a lack of political sophistication, where reluctant individuals are compelled to vote. At the same time, the chapter advances the expectation that pro-democratic orientations are more likely to boost attitudinal and behavioral support for the democratic system and its authorities, as well as to engender higher political sophistication, under mandatory rules.","PeriodicalId":413271,"journal":{"name":"Beyond Turnout","volume":"11 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123641114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Beyond TurnoutPub Date : 2021-08-03DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198832928.003.0005
Shane P. Singh
{"title":"The Effects of Compulsory Voting on Individuals","authors":"Shane P. Singh","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198832928.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832928.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter empirically tests the expectation that compulsory voting moderates the effects of orientations toward democracy on political attitudes, behavior, and sophistication. It first employs cross-national survey data from the AmericasBarometer and the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems to estimate multilevel models. It also uses cross-cantonal data from the Swiss Election Study, and novel survey data from Argentina collected for this book. The analyses of the Swiss and Argentine data leverage age-based thresholds in the application of compulsory voting with discontinuity models. Results suggest that, in line with the predictions of the theory advanced in Chapter 3, compulsory voting polarizes behavior and attitudes, and broadens gaps in political sophistication levels, among those with negative and positive orientations toward democracy.","PeriodicalId":413271,"journal":{"name":"Beyond Turnout","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115119614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Beyond TurnoutPub Date : 2021-08-03DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198832928.003.0002
Shane P. Singh
{"title":"The Consequences of Compulsory Voting","authors":"Shane P. Singh","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198832928.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832928.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter reviews the growing literature on compulsory voting’s consequences. Compulsory voting has an unsurprising upward impact on voter participation, which lessens the impact of many socioeconomic and demographic forerunners of turnout, thereby making the composition of the voting population better reflect the distribution of eligible voters. Further, invalid balloting tends to be more common under compulsory voting. Compelled voters are also less likely to cast ballots that correspond with their preferences. Many studies indicate that mandatory voting has an educative effect and can socialize people into political engagement, with others casting strong doubt on this possibility. A small number of studies have assessed whether compulsory voting shapes attitudes, election outcomes, the behavior of political parties, policy characteristics, and income growth and inequality, with few clear patterns yet established. Compulsory voting laws have the greatest impact where sanctions for abstention are enforced and meaningful.","PeriodicalId":413271,"journal":{"name":"Beyond Turnout","volume":"100 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131187604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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