Education and electoral participation: reported versus actual voting behaviour
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E-voting and electoral participation
Numerous studies show that, together with the United States, Switzerland presents the lowest average levels of turnout among established democracies. At the same time, Swiss voters are among those most frequently called to the polls, owing to the widespread possibilities for direct democracy on all three levels of the federal state. Not surprisingly, it is also in Switzerland that new means of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Applied Economics Letters
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1350-4851,1466-4291
DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2015.1119785