Declining voter turnout in Taiwan: A generational effect? |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Politics, Princeton University, United States;2. Department of Politics and Government, Illinois State University, United States;1. Sciences Po, Cevipof, 98 rue de l’Université, 75007, Paris, France;2. Berlin Social Science Center, Reichpietschufer 50, 10785, Berlin, Germany;1. CONICET, Argentina;2. Instituto de Cálculo and Departamento de Matemática, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina;3. Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial, FCFM, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile;4. Department of Business and Management Science, NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway;5. Hobby School of Public Affairs, University of Houston, USA;6. Departamento de Industria, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile;7. Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, School of Business, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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| Abstract: | Taiwan's voter turnout has declined nearly fifteen percentage points since the early 2000s. All ages voted less in 2016 than before, but the drop was particularly severe among younger voters, who turned out at rates up to twenty percentage points lower than in 2004. Thus Taiwan resembles other mature democracies like the U.S., Canada, Sweden, and Finland, where declining turnout has been shown to afflict the young disproportionately. However, we argue that this youthful disaffection with voting is more difficult to interpret than usually believed, and that it may not represent an inherent attribute of younger cohorts. |
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