Determinants of voter participation in Latin American referendums

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Result on the web

<a href="https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/POSO/article/view/69672" target="_blank" >https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/POSO/article/view/69672</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/poso.69672" target="_blank" >10.5209/poso.69672</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Determinants of voter participation in Latin American referendums

Original language description

Voter turnout in regular parliamentary or presidential elections is a very frequent topic, mainly in the recent debate about its decline. This article works with several theories explaining variations in voter turnout that are subsequently applied on referendums in Latin America. Referendums as one of the main pillars of direct democracy are not, in this regard, sufficiently scientifically explored topic. In this point of view, the region of Latin America is an ideal environment for research of the given subject, because there are many cases of direct democracy applications in the institutional configuration as well as in practice. Voter turnout in referendums is set into a comparative perspective using regression models that allow the researcher to monitor possible correlations and control explaining values. The analysis employs aggregate data from various statistical databases (e. g. V-Dem, Polity IV, World Bank) as well as secondary data from available comparative literature focused on elections (and referendums) in Latin America. The results indicate very high circumstantiality of referendums and the respective societies that apply them in politics. Some institutional settings have been found to positively influence the turnout, mainly compulsory elections.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Politica y Sociedad

ISSN

1130-8001

e-ISSN

1988-3129

Volume of the periodical

59

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

ES - SPAIN

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

"article number 69672"

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85128397587