Institutional determinants of invalid voting in post-communist Europe and Latin America |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University, United States;2. Peking University, China;1. Department of Psychiatry, University of Tübingen, Germany;2. Department of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, University of Tübingen, Germany;3. Department of Psychology I, University of Würzburg, Germany;4. Department of Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Germany;1. Department of Media and Communication, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong;2. School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong;3. School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong;4. Department of Social Science, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong;5. Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan |
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| Abstract: | Implications from three theoretical models explaining the incidence of invalid voting are tested using data from all presidential elections in post-communist and Latin American democracies. Institutions such as the rule governing the possibility of reelection, compulsory voting, the rule for electing presidents, and the concurrence of elections, all powerfully shape the incidence of invalid voting. The article utilizes an interactive framework which implies that the effect of electoral rules is strongly conditioned by features of political competition. Although there is evidence consistent both with the voter error and protest models of invalid voting, most of the variation in invalid voting rates is explicable by the stakes associated with casting a valid as opposed to an invalid ballot. |
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| Keywords: | Invalid voting Presidential elections Post-communist politics Latin American politics |
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