When parties go abroad: Explaining patterns of extraterritorial voting

Burgess, Katrina; Tyburski, Michael D.

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2020.102169

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“…Research on party politics has traditionally focused on the national arena, overlooking other spaces of party competition, such as the transnational arena (similar claims have been made by, e.g. Burgess & Tyburski, 2020;Jakobson, Saarts, & Kalev, 2020; Kernalegenn & van Haute, 2020), despite a subset of countries with overseas districts that allow parties to selectively compete in them. In this context, our research question deals with political parties' strategic entry in overseas districts, 1 and more precisely on the reasons why do some parties compete to capture overseas votes, while others remain focussed on the national territory.…”

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Should We Go Abroad? The Strategic Entry of Ecuadorian Political Parties in Overseas Electoral Districts

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Dandoy

2021

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The literature on external voting overlooks why some political parties campaign abroad while others remain focused on the national territory. This article investigates the determinants of the strategic entry of political parties in overseas districts through analysing legislative elections in Ecuador (2007Ecuador ( -2017. Based on a study of the incentives and constraints of political party presence abroad, we find that parties are more likely to compete for elections in overseas districts displaying a weaker party competition as well as when they account for previous electoral experience in these districts.

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Should We Go Abroad? The Strategic Entry of Ecuadorian Political Parties in Overseas Electoral Districts

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Dandoy

2021

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“…A common challenge faced is the difficulty in determining the actual number of citizens living abroad. Studies in some countries have found that the number of registered voters in each country does not reflect the actual eligible voters abroad (Alarcon Jr, 2012;Burgess & Tyburski, 2020;Ciornei & Østergaard-Nielsen, 2020;Hafizy, 2017;Smith, 2010). To address this challenge, some studies utilize various sources to compare the numbers of overseas citizens.…”

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“…To address this challenge, some studies utilize various sources to compare the numbers of overseas citizens. One alternative source that is commonly used to better estimate the number of overseas citizens is the Migrant Stock data published by the United Nations (Burgess & Tyburski, 2020;Ciornei & Østergaard-Nielsen, 2020). The UN Migrant Stock provides the number of migrants by country of origin and destination, age, and gender, based on official data about foreign-born or foreign populations published by each country (Department of Economic and Social Affairs United Nations, 2020).…”

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Indonesian Voting from Abroad: Highly Educated Citizen Participation in the 2019 Election at Tokyo Polling Station

Pujiatin

2021

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The political rights of Indonesian citizens living abroad have been guaranteed by law since 1953 and implemented by a joint committee between the General Election Commission and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As a developing country with increasing democracy, Indonesia’s external voting needs to be studied. Using the qualitative analysis of macro data and questionnaire survey in Tokyo, this study addresses the following questions: How is the implementation of external voting by the Indonesian government? How is the voter? How does the registration, administration, voting facilitation, and voting method influence voter participation in home country elections? The findings suggest that the government provides many resources to facilitate external voting. Nevertheless, survey results revealed that some facilitation was inadequate compare to the number of voters. Although highly educated citizens tend to have a high awareness of home country elections, problems in voting facilitation might prevent them from voting.

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“…While there is already some consensus over how the features of the emigrant community or the institutional organization of elections affects external voter turnout (e.g. Burgess & Tyburski, 2020;Chaudhary, 2018;Ciornei & Østergaard-Nielsen, 2020;Hutcheson & Arrighi, 2015), the research into the role of party organization has thus far remained rather exploratory. While there are some studies charting the ways how party organizations expand abroad (Gherghina & Soare, 2020;Østergaard-Nielsen & Ciornei, 2019) or campaign abroad (Paarlberg, 2019(Paarlberg, , 2020Wilcock, 2018), this article aims to contribute an alternative approach to parties that engage external voters (henceforth, we call them transnationalizing parties), namely, from the perspective of party institutionalization.…”

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Institutionalization of transnationalizing political parties: the case of the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia

Jakobson

Saarts

Kalev

2021

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While party institutionalization research has advanced notably in the recent years, the institutionalization of political parties that extend their organizations abroad (i.e. transnationalizing parties) has remained an academically uncharted territory. This article draws on party institutionalization literature and analyses the particularities of institutionalization in transnationalizing parties. The findings suggest that transnational institutionalization takes place simultaneously on multiple levels (local, national and transnational) and is distinctly interactive, placing crucial importance on the activities and responsiveness of both the central party organization as well as the extraterritorial branches. The internal dimensions of institutionalization can be notably affected by the territorially and temporally scattered nature of emigrant communities and by the sense of inclusion provided to the activists. The external dimensions of transnational institutionalization involve a wider variety of actors than institutionalization on the national level and can also be more challenging due to the more contingent socialization patterns and interest in politics of transnational migrants. Transnational institutionalization of political parties is relevant to the parties and their continuous electoral success, but also for transnational migrant communities and impact of their political participation.

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When parties go abroad: Explaining patterns of extraterritorial voting

Cited by 56 publications

References 44 publications

Should We Go Abroad? The Strategic Entry of Ecuadorian Political Parties in Overseas Electoral Districts

Should We Go Abroad? The Strategic Entry of Ecuadorian Political Parties in Overseas Electoral Districts

Indonesian Voting from Abroad: Highly Educated Citizen Participation in the 2019 Election at Tokyo Polling Station

Institutionalization of transnationalizing political parties: the case of the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia

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