Economic and Political Consequences of the Compulsory Voting in Public Parliamentary Elections: Czech Case Study

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/economies9020063" target="_blank" >10.3390/economies9020063</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Economic and Political Consequences of the Compulsory Voting in Public Parliamentary Elections: Czech Case Study

Original language description

Scholars who study compulsory voting realize their research in countries where compulsory voting already exists. On the contrary, there are not many studies that deal with ex ante analyses of the economic and political consequences of voter behavior caused by a new element in public elections—compulsory voting. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to find out what voters’ reactions will cause when compulsory voting is introduced in the Czech Republic. This paper has the ambition to contribute to the understanding of the economic and political context of sanctions for non-voters. The analysis of non-voters’ willingness to change their behavior due to the fine and the determination of the amount of this fine in the Czech Republic are the practical benefits of this study. In this way, we determine the “abstention price” of a vote. The input data of the analysis are data obtained by a questionnaire survey conducted in the Czech Republic in 2020; the target group is 807 respondents. The basic statistical operations, and binary and multinomial logistic regressions were employed in this study. The results of the research show that compulsory voting has only a minimal effect on the turnout. The introduction of compulsory voting changes the characteristics of the typical voter. Voters with lower political interest and political knowledge will take part in the elections more often. The fine that non-voters would be willing to pay is approx. 6% of their average monthly income.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Economies

ISSN

2227-7099

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

9

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

63

UT code for WoS article

000665142800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85106531066