Turnout Across Democracies

Turnout Decline in the U.S. and other Advanced Industrial Democracies

The Turnout Paradox: Why Changing Electoral Experiences Trump Changing Social Characteristics in Driving Voter Turnout in Advanced Democracies

This paper challenges the dominant paradigm of turnout studies by proposing that turnout variations occur because elections differ, not because countries differ; and certainly not because people differ. Indeed, we take the radical position that what matters if we want to understand overtime and cross-national turnout variations is differences in the ways in which citizens are affected by the el...

Electoral Turnout and Income Redistribution by the State: A Cross-National Analysis of the Developed Democracies

Altruism and Turnout

Scholars have recently reworked the traditional calculus of voting model by adding a term for benefits to others. Although the probability that a single vote affects the outcome of an election is quite small, the number of people who enjoy the benefit when the preferred alternative wins is large. As a result, people who care about benefits to others and who think one of the alternatives makes o...

Turnout, Partisanship, and Protest

The youth have long represented an important constituency for electoral mobilization in Africa. Today, as the region faces a growing ‘youth bulge’ that is disproportionately burdened by unand underemployment, capturing the votes of this demographic is becoming more important than ever before. Yet, despite their numerical importance and the historical relevance of generational identities within ...