Perceptions of Electoral Fairness and Voter Turnout

Birch, Sarah

doi:10.1177/0010414010374021

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“…A particularly striking di¤erence is the high Swedish turnout rates (Birch 2010). All political behavior takes place within an institutional environment and the parameter estimates obtained from one set of environments does not necessarily translate to others.…”

Section: Sensitivity Analysesmentioning

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Pre-Birth Factors, Post-Birth Factors, and Voting: Evidence from Swedish Adoption Data

2014

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This paper analyzes a rich Swedish data set with information on the electoral turnout of a large sample of adoptees, their siblings, their adoptive parents, and their biological parents. We use a simple regression framework to decompose the parent-child resemblance in voting into pre-birth factors, measured by biological parents' voting, and post-birth factors, measured by adoptive parents'voting. Adoptees are more likely to vote if their biological parents were voters and if they were assigned to families in which the adoptive parents vote. We …nd evidence of interactions between the preand post-birth factors: the e¤ect of the post-birth environment on turnout is greater amongst adoptees whose biological mothers are non-voters. We also show that the relationships between parental characteristics, such as education, and child turnout persist even in the absence of a genetic link between parent and child. The regression-based framework we utilize provides a basis for the integration of behavior-genetic research into mainstream political science.

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Section: Sensitivity Analysesmentioning

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Pre-Birth Factors, Post-Birth Factors, and Voting: Evidence from Swedish Adoption Data

2014

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“…Birch (2010) analyzes the relationship between perceptions of electoral fairness and turnout in 31 countries between 1996 and 2002 using survey data from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems. Her findings provide evidence in favor of a positive relation between confidence in the electoral process and voting.…”

Section: A Not-so-new Explanation: Citizens' Confidence In the Electomentioning

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“…Because citizens will likely feel less politically efficacious if they believe that there are irregularities in the way the electoral process is conducted, their electoral participation will suffer (Shaffer 1981;Abramson and Aldrich 1982). As Birch (2010) claims:…”

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“…If voters fear that polls are corrupt, they have less incentive to bother casting a vote; participating in a process in which they do not have confidence will be less attractive, and they may well perceive the outcome of the election to be a foregone conclusion (Birch 2010(Birch : 1603.…”

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“…In recent years, comparative studies of advanced industrial democracies have started to focus on the effect that citizens' attitudes and perceptions towards political institutions have on electoral participation (Cox 2003;Grönlund and Setala 2007;Birch 2010). However, this type of research in Latin America remains limited.…”

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What Explains Voter Turnout in Latin America?: A Test of the Effect of Citizens' Attitudes Towards the Electoral Process

Haime

2017

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Research on electoral participation at the individual level in Latin America remains scarce. This article extends our knowledge about the individual-level factors that impact citizens' propensity to vote in the region. Specifically, I assess the link between citizens' trust in the electoral process and voter turnout using recent survey data from 19 Latin American countries between 2004 and 2014. Using logistic models I show that trust in the fairness of elections has a significant and positive effect on voter turnout across the region, and that this effect is mediated by the existence of compulsory voting laws.

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AI and core electoral processes: Mapping the horizons

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2023

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It is well documented that there has been significant enthusiasm across the globe in respect of using AI for all forms of social activity. However, the electoral process – the time, place, and manner of elections within democratic nations – is one of few sectors in which there has been limited penetration of AI. Electoral management bodies in many countries have recently started exploring and deliberating over the use of AI in the electoral process. In this paper, we consider five avenues within the core electoral process which have potential for AI usage, and map the challenges involved in using AI within them. These five avenues are: voter list maintenance, determining polling booth locations, polling booth protection processes, voter authentication, and video monitoring of elections. Within each avenue, we lay down the context, illustrate current or potential usage of AI, and discuss extant or potential ramifications of AI usage, as well as potential directions for mitigating risks when considering AI usage. We believe that the scant current usage of AI within electoral processes provides a very rare opportunity to deliberate on the risks and mitigation possibilities prior to actual and widespread AI deployment. This paper is an attempt to map the horizons of risks and opportunities in using AI within electoral processes and to help shape the debate around the topic.

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Perceptions of Electoral Fairness and Voter Turnout

Cited by 212 publications

References 61 publications

Pre-Birth Factors, Post-Birth Factors, and Voting: Evidence from Swedish Adoption Data

Pre-Birth Factors, Post-Birth Factors, and Voting: Evidence from Swedish Adoption Data

What Explains Voter Turnout in Latin America?: A Test of the Effect of Citizens' Attitudes Towards the Electoral Process

AI and core electoral processes: Mapping the horizons

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