Turnout determinants in democracies and in non-democracies |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Economics Department, Sonoma State University, 1801 E. Cotati Avenue, Rohnert Park, CA 94928, USA;2. Economics Department, University of the Pacific, 3601 Pacific Avenue, Stockton, CA 95211, USA;1. Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA;2. Copperbelt University, Lusaka, Zambia |
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| Abstract: | Elections are celebrated in democracies as well as in non-democracies. Studies on the factors explaining turnout normally focus, however, only on democracies. Are turnout patterns different in non-democracies? If so, how different are those? In this paper I address this issue with a unique dataset covering 1251 elections −678 democratic (in 107 countries) and 250 nondemocratic elections (in 81 countries) for the lower house and 209 democratic (in 57 countries) and 114 nondemocratic (in 60 countries)- for the period 1961–2008. I find that the turnout determinants are contingent upon the regimes and that the most important differences lay in the institutional and in the political factors. |
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| Keywords: | Turnout Democracies Non-democracies |
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