When do voters boycott elections with participation quorums?

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62690094%3A18460%2F21%3A50017876" target="_blank" >RIV/62690094:18460/21:50017876 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11127-021-00885-y" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11127-021-00885-y</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11127-021-00885-y" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11127-021-00885-y</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
When do voters boycott elections with participation quorums?
Original language description
With participation quorums present in elections and referendums, supporters of the status quo have to decide whether to vote against the proposition or boycott it by abstaining altogether to achieve the same result. This paper examines why one strategy or the other is implemented, using data from recall elections in 376 Peruvian municipalities mandating a 50% participation quorum to validate the removal of the mayor. While instrumental rationality under situations of strategic uncertainty in competitive settings goes far in explaining the incidence of boycotts, a bounded rationality approach whereby actors rely on inferential heuristics through spatial diffusion and past experience produces similarly consistent results. Boycotts are also more likely when voter coordination is easier. Personal traits of the status quo elites, on the other hand, are irrelevant. The paper contributes to the understanding of the quorum paradox warning that measures to increase voter participation, such as the introduction of a participation quorum, may actually depress it.
Czech name
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Czech description
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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

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)

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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