POLITICAL HABIT FORMATION UNDER DEMOCRATIC AND AUTHORITARIAN ELECTIONS
QMUL
This paper addresses the understudied but crucial question of how past experiences with authoritarian elections (or the lack of them) have shaped habitual voting behaviour. We consider individual voter turnout in elections in democracies and autocracies between 1975 and 2015 across the entire world including Latin America, Africa, Europe, and Central & East Asia. Applying hierarchical age-period cohort analysis, we show that indeed the opportunity to participate in elections in the formative years matters. However, the impact of these early opportunities on long-term habitual voting is conditional on the “quality” of the elections experienced. In fact, the less truly competitive early electoral experiences are, the less likely a newly eligible voter is to become a habitual voter later in life. This research has important implications not only for understanding voter turnout in new democracies but also habitual voting in general.
Date:
6 November 2018, 17:00 (Tuesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2018)
Venue:
Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details:
Clay Room
Speaker:
Dr Ksenia Northmore-Ball (QMUL)
Organising department:
Nuffield College
Organisers:
Professor Geoffrey Evans (University of Oxford),
Dr Sergi Pardos-Prado (Merton College)
Organiser contact email address:
maxine.collett@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Maxine Collett
