Compulsory voting, turnout, and government spending: Evidence from Austria
| Autor: | María Lombardi, Gianmarco León, Mitchell Hoffman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Government spending
Economics and Econometrics Public economics media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Turnout 16. Peace & justice 0506 political science Fiscal policy Politics State (polity) Voting 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration Economics Demographic economics 050207 economics Finance media_common Compulsory voting |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Public Economics. 145:103-115 |
| ISSN: | 0047-2727 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2016.10.002 |
| Popis: | We study a unique quasi-experiment in Austria, where compulsory voting laws are changed across Austria's nine states at different times. Analyzing state and national elections from 1949 to 2010, we show that compulsory voting laws with weakly enforced fines increase turnout by roughly 10 percentage points. However, we find no evidence that this change in turnout affected government spending patterns (in levels or composition) or electoral outcomes. Individual-level data on turnout and political preferences suggest that these results occur because the impacts of compulsory voting on turnout are larger among those who are non-partisan, who have low interest in politics, and who are uninformed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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