![Turnout in Western Europe: Down and Down We Go 1 Turnout in Western Europe, 1945-2012](https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/turnout-eu-15-300x200.png)
While writing a chapter for a textbook, I felt the need to fill half a page with a little illustrative graph. So I headed over to IDEA’s very useful voter turnout database, downloaded the stats for the EU-15 group of countries and ran them through Stata. No surprises here, but still just a little bit chilling?