Turnout in Western Europe: Down and Down We Go
Here’s a graph that illustrates the decline of turnout in Western Europe over the last three decades. No surprises here, but still just a little bit chilling?
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Lakatos reloaded paper in print and online
My ‘Lakatos Reloaded’ rejoinder has just been published by the British Journal of Politics and International Relations (vol. 11 (2009): 526-528. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-856X.2009.00372.x).
Turnout, Lakatos, and Case Studies
I was slightly surprised that I would have the right to respond to that reply. Where does it stop?
Does inequality depress turnout (or what you shouldn't do with time-series cross-sectional data)?
The US might face unprecedented levels of turnout in tomorrow’s election, but historically, the non-voters are the biggest camp in American politics. One intriguing explanation for this well-known fact is that low turnout could be a consequence of the very high (by any standard) levels of income inequality: because voters lack experience with universalistic institutions,…
Turnout, Institutions, Inequality, and the Welfare State
Last year, the British Journal of Politics and International Relations published an article which essentially argued that higher levels of welfare state spending create attitudes which are conducive to higher turnout. I was not convinced and so I wrote a comment/replication in which I demonstrate that there is no robust evidence for a universal, politically…