Turnout models and election context
The number of people choosing to vote or abstain varies over elections and across countries. The reasons why individuals may choose to vote in one election but not the next are not completely known. Election context seems to play a role but there is not a clear set of contextual variables that polit...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2014 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | CBUC, CESCA |
| Repositorio: | TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/276166 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10803/276166 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Turnout Class voting Economic voting Party systems Emotion Election context Participación electoral Voto de clase Voto economico Sistema de partidos Emociones 34 |
| Sumario: | The number of people choosing to vote or abstain varies over elections and across countries. The reasons why individuals may choose to vote in one election but not the next are not completely known. Election context seems to play a role but there is not a clear set of contextual variables that political scientists employ that capture why turnout - or individual decisions to vote - fluctuates from one election to the next. There remains a need fill this literature gap. This dissertation attempts to move our understanding of turnout variation forward. It does so by analysing three election contexts with cross-national as well as individual-level data for specific countries. The results suggest that factors such as emotional responses to election issues, the economy, the party system, and class voting, have an impact on whether people vote or not. |
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