Voter Engagement, Electoral Inequality and First-Time Compulsory Voting

被引：4

作者：

Birch, Sarah ^{[1
]}

Lodge, Guy ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ London, Polit Birkbeck, London WC1E 7HU, England

[2] Univ Oxford, Nuffield Coll, Oxford OX1 2JD, England

来源：

POLITICAL QUARTERLY | 2015年 / 86卷 / 03期

关键词：

Compulsory voting; turnout; participation; disengagement; young voters;

D O I：

10.1111/1467-923X.12178

中图分类号：

D0 [政治学、政治理论];

学科分类号：

0302 ; 030201 ;

摘要：

This paper reviews the problem of declining turnout and proposes as a solution a system whereby each elector would be legally obliged to vote in the first election for which they were eligible. Popular attitudes toward first-time compulsory voting are measured and probed by means of UK data. The main findings of the paper are that first-time compulsory voting is a politically and administratively feasible proposal that appears tentatively to command popular support and has the potential to help address a number of the problems associated with declining turnout, and in particular low rates of electoral participation among younger citizens.

引用

页码：385 / 392

页数：8

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