Compulsory Voting, Habit Formation, and Political Participation
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Compulsory Voting, Habit Formation, and Political Participation
Can compulsory voting induce lasting changes in citizens’ voting habits? We study the long-term and spillover effects of a severely sanctioned and long-standing compulsory voting law in the Swiss canton of Vaud (1900–1970). Our findings suggest that compulsory voting strongly increases turnout in federal referendums by about 30 percentage points. However, this effect returns to zero quickly aft...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Review of Economics and Statistics
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0034-6535,1530-9142
DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_00701