Explaining voter turnout in local elections: a global comparative perspective
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62690094%3A18460%2F21%3A50017409" target="_blank" >RIV/62690094:18460/21:50017409 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13569775.2020.1831764?journalCode=ccpo20" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13569775.2020.1831764?journalCode=ccpo20</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13569775.2020.1831764" target="_blank" >10.1080/13569775.2020.1831764</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Explaining voter turnout in local elections: a global comparative perspective
Original language description
The determinants of voter turnout in local elections are examined using global cross-national time-series comparative evidence from 97 countries. Despite the vast research agenda on turnout, only a few comparative tests at the local level are available. Filling this lacuna, the article explores how seven institutional features are related to local turnout. It analyses both the effects of rules applicable exclusively to local politics (size of municipalities, local authority power, directly elected mayors), and of institutions previously theorised to affect turnout in national elections. Compulsory voting and the concurrence with first-order elections not only powerfully shape turnout in local elections but also help close the turnout deficit relative to national elections. The autonomy of local elected authorities also drives turnout, but we lack evidence for the effects on turnout of electing mayors directly, weekend voting, concurrence with second-order elections and the size of municipalities.
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
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Contemporary Politics
ISSN
1356-9775
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
27
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
58-78
UT code for WoS article
000577364600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85092595776