Socioeconomic or Political Variables? The Determinants of Voter Turnout in Czech Municipalities
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sav.sk/journals/uploads/06181230Haman-Skolnik-3-2020.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.sav.sk/journals/uploads/06181230Haman-Skolnik-3-2020.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2020.52.3.10" target="_blank" >10.31577/sociologia.2020.52.3.10</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Socioeconomic or Political Variables? The Determinants of Voter Turnout in Czech Municipalities
Original language description
The article contributes to the debate on the relationship between voter turnout and socioeconomic and political variables at the local level in the Czech Republic. We investigated the 2018 Czech municipal elections. We constructed an original dataset composed of 6,229 municipalities. Also, we created a second dataset consisted of 205 municipalities with extended jurisdiction and Prague, which included a composite Index of quality of life (including variables that are part of development indices such as health, economic indicators, education, and many others). From a methodological point of view, we used statistical methods such as ordinary least squares regression to analyze data. We find that a higher quality of life in a municipality is positively associated with a higher voter turnout. Furthermore, the running incumbent does not have an effect on voter turnout. We find that the presence of at least two candidate lists in smaller municipalities increases voter turnout by 10 %. Also, we confirm that municipalities with contest-free elections (the number of candidates is equal or less than assigned seats) have much lower voter turnout. Moreover, the increase in the number of candidates per voter also increases voter turnout, which may be due to the personal ties with candidates.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA20-02098S" target="_blank" >GA20-02098S: Political competition and local democracy in comparative perspective</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Sociológia
ISSN
0049-1225
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
52
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
SK - SLOVAKIA
Number of pages
23
Pages from-to
222-244
UT code for WoS article
000543489200002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85090754142