55 research outputs found
Does compulsory voting increase support for leftist policy?
Citizens unequally participate in referendums, and this may systematically bias policy in favor of those who vote. Some view compulsory voting as an important tool to alleviate this problem, whereas others worry about its detrimental effects on the legitimacy and quality of democratic decision making. So far, however, we lack systematic knowledge about the causal effect of compulsory voting on public policy. We argue that sanctioned compulsory voting mobilizes citizens at the bottom of the income distribution and that this translates into an increase in support for leftist policies. We empirically explore the effects of a sanctioned compulsory voting law on direct-democratic decision making in Switzerland. We find that compulsory voting significantly increases electoral support for leftist policy positions in referendums by up to 20 percentage points. We discuss the implications of these results for our understanding of the policy consequences of electoral institutions
Cooperation between counterparts in parliament from an agenda-setting perspective:legislative coalitions as a trade of criticism and policy
Padrões de Participação em Governos de Esquerda na América Latina: Brasil e Venezuela em Perspectiva Comparada
A desigualdade invisível: o papel da classe social na criação dos filhos em famílias negras e brancas
Pathways to Politics: How Media System Characteristics Can Influence Socioeconomic Gaps in Political Participation
Crossbred ewes gain more weight and are fatter than Merino ewes when managed together but similar coefficients predict lamb birthweight and survival
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