Compulsory voting and TV news consumption

Bruce, Raphael; Lima, Rafael Costa

doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2019.01.006

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“…It is also likely that rally participation varies systematically with individual characteristics. For example, Bruce and Costa Lima (2019) finds that political information acquisition in Brazil was strongest for individuals with a neutral view of the incumbent president. Knowledge of which individuals are most likely to attend rallies could help to better target public health resources.…”

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“…1 Furthermore, Taiwan's national health care system limits differences in access to care. This identification strategy is similar to the RDD implemented by Bruce and Costa Lima (2019) to estimate the effect of compulsory voting laws on political information acquisition in Brazil. In their application, a discontinuity in political participation occurs when individuals are subject to a compulsory voting law at age 18.…”

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Do elections make you sick? Evidence from first‐time voters

Chang

Meyerhoefer

2023

Health Economics

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Despite the best efforts of governments to mitigate conflict during elections, there is evidence that elections can adversely affect health. Most studies focus on mental health, finding that higher levels of psychological distress occur during campaign periods, on Election Day and following the election. For example, Lotto (2016) and Williams and Medlock (2017) suggest that the stigmatization and marginalization of minorities, immigrants and the poor in recent U.S. election campaigns led to anxiety and psychological distress among the targeted groups. Likewise, clinically significant stress was more commonly reported by young women and others who were more likely to be disadvantaged by the election outcome (DeJonckheere et al., 2018;Hagan et al., 2020).Similar levels of stress and anxiety have been documented in India, where political attacks on minority groups and liberals escalated in the run-up to the 2019 general election (Ganesan, 2018), and in Taiwan, psychiatrists reported a 30% increase in anxiety attacks and related disorders in some hospitals during the 2012 election campaign (The Telegraph, 2012). The pathology surrounding negative psychological reactions to political campaigns is so common that it has been referred to in several countries as "election syndrome" or "election stress disorder" (

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Do elections make you sick? Evidence from first‐time voters

Chang

Meyerhoefer

2023

Health Economics

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“…3 Regarding immediate motivation, three studies that use randomized experiments (Großer & Seebauer, 2016;Miles & Mullinix, 2021;Shineman, 2018) find a swift effect of the requirement to participate on political sophistication. Exploiting age-based variation in the application of compulsory voting in Brazil, Bruce and Costa Lima (2019) uncover a prompt effect of the voting obligation on information gathering. Gordon and Segura (1997), Berggren (2001), Sheppard (2015), Carreras (2016), and Córdova and Rangel (2017) report a positive correlation between mandatory voting and political sophistication across countries, and Wernli (2001) attributes relatively high levels of political knowledge in the canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland, to its use of enforced compulsory voting.…”

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Does Compulsory Voting Affect How Voters Choose? A Test Using a Combined Conjoint and Regression Discontinuity Analysis

Singh

2022

Comparative Political Studies

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Authors writing since the late 1800s have argued that the requirement to vote can transform citizens, especially by inducing political sophistication. This implies the criteria that compelled voters use to choose between candidates will differ from those who are not obligated to turn out. To test this, I amalgamate a conjoint experiment with a regression discontinuity design, exploiting age-based cutoffs in the application of compulsory voting. This allows me to causally identify the impact of compulsory voting on the attributes individuals take into account when choosing between candidates. While I recover compulsory voting’s upward impact on turnout, I find no evidence that compelled and voluntary voters differ in how they select candidates.

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“…Thus, after the introduction of penalties for non-voting, experts usually record a weakening of class and educational disparities, and an increase in age and territorial ones (Barnes and Rangel, 2018; Cepaluni and Hidalgo, 2016; Contreras et al, 2016; Power, 2009). Arguments about positive educational impact (e.g., Bruce and Costa Lima, 2019; Elliott, 2017; Sheppard, 2015) often collide with counter-arguments about the cost of this impact. For example, Miles and Mullinix (2019) record an increased level of anger among CV-obligated respondents, Singh and Roy (2018) – weak information seeking, and several recent studies in a row – a higher proportion of random votes and spoiled ballots (Freire and Turgeon, 2020; Katz and Levin, 2018; Singh, 2019b).…”

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Assessing the Relationship Between Compulsory Voting and the Over-Representation of Extreme Parties

Ankudinov

2024

Journal of Politics in Latin America

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In this paper, we address the issue of partisan bias in compulsory voting systems. Given the current global trends – declining trust in mainstream political parties, rising support for left- and right-wing radicals, growing populism and anti-elite sentiment – we seek to determine how they manifest themselves in an environment where citizens are required to vote by law. To answer this question, a quasi-experimental design is proposed. The data show that forced activity does not affect either extreme forces support rates (from a cross-country perspective) or the rationality of their voters (from an individual-level perspective). As far as we know, this is the first attempt to generalize the role of compulsory voting in extreme politics, as well as the first one to refute this role with ample evidence.

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Compulsory voting and TV news consumption

Cited by 13 publications

References 47 publications

Do elections make you sick? Evidence from first‐time voters

Do elections make you sick? Evidence from first‐time voters

Does Compulsory Voting Affect How Voters Choose? A Test Using a Combined Conjoint and Regression Discontinuity Analysis

Assessing the Relationship Between Compulsory Voting and the Over-Representation of Extreme Parties

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