Government of the People: A Case for Compulsory Voting

Compulsory Voting and Income Inequality: Evidence for Lijpharts Proposition from Venezuela

What difference does it make if the state makes people vote? The question is central to normative debates about the rights and duties of citizens in a democracy, and to contemporary policy debates in a number of Latin American countries over what actions states should take to encourage electoral participation. Focusing on a rare case of abolishing compulsory voting in Venezuela, this article sh...

A Study of Factors that Influenced Voters’ Behaviour: A Case of Billiri Local Government (2019 General Elections)

Compulsory Voting and Income Inequality

What difference does it make if the state makes people vote? The question is central to normative debates about the rights and duties of citizens in a democracy, and to contemporary policy debates in a variety of countries over what actions states should take to encourage electoral participation. By focusing on a rare case of abolishing compulsory voting in Venezuela, we show that not forcing p...

The role of compulsory quarantine, housing design and urban furniture in Covid 19 disaster management. A personal Experience in Australia

Back ground and Aim: The Australian Government has recently announced a compulsory two-week quarantine policy, from March 20th 2020, for all incoming passengers in the allocated hotels around the country. The Government, at the same time, has also restricted, seriously, for its citizens to travel abroad. Such measurements, among others, have been developed in order to eliminate the outbreak pan...

Is Compulsory Voting Justified? Forthcoming in Public Reason

Should voting be compulsory? Many people believe that it should, and that countries, like Britain, which have never had compulsion, ought to adopt it. As is common with such things, the arguments are a mixture of principle and political calculation, reflecting the idea that compulsory voting is morally right and that it is likely to prove politically beneficial. This article casts a sceptical e...