To Vote or Not to Vote

By André Blais. 2000

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations

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Field Experiments and the Study of Voter Turnout (2013, background): “(Blais, 2000), or Voter Turnout and the Dynamics of Electoral Competition in Established Democracies Since 1945 (Franklin, 2004), the extensive literature seemed to leave few openings for new contributions.”
Demand and Supply of Populism (2017, background): “This means that each voter (1) decides between voting and abstaining but, conditionally on voting, votes for her preferred ideology, left or right – the ideological component; and (2) the decision to vote rather than abstain depends exclusively on a comparison between cost of voting and expressive b”
Using the Predicted Responses from List Experiments as Explanatory Variables in Regression Models (2015, methodology): “We include a set of standard demographic variables: wealth, age, gender, and education (Wolfinger and Rosenstone 1980; Blais 2000).”
Antipartyism and Third-Party Vote Choice (2004, result): “The results with respect to respondents who chose to exit are consistent with the usual findings about turnout (see Blais, 2000, pp. 49-54).”
The Source of Turnout Decline (2013, background): “These scholars argue that new generations are less interested in politics, and/or have different priorities, and/or are less inclined to conceive of voting as a civic duty (Blais, 2000; Dalton, 2007; Inglehart, 1990; Miller & Shanks, 1996; Wattenberg, 2002, 2007).”
Rational Choice Theory and the Paradox of Not Voting (2004, background): “Excellent reviews of the empirical literature are available in Aldrich (1993), Matsusaka and Palda (1993), Blais (2000) and Mueller (2003).”
Beyond Total Effects: Exploring the Interplay of Personality and Attitudes in Affecting Turnout in the 2009 German Federal Election (2013, neutral): “Blais 2000; Caballero 2005).”
Exploring the Nature of 'Trader Intuition' (2010, background): “One can envisage that it encompasses political systems as well, like voting in an election where the chance that one's vote is pivotal is miniscule (which has left political scientists wondering why people vote at all; see, for example, Blais (2000)).”
Affect, Social Pressure and Prosocial Motivation: Field Experimental Evidence of the Mobilizing Effects of Pride, Shame and Publicizing Voting Behavior (2010, background): “Studies demonstrate that voting is widely viewed as a civic duty (Biais 2000), and voters wish, at the very least, to appear compliant with this social norm.”
Electoral turnout and income redistribution by the state: A cross-national analysis of the developed democracies (2008, methodology): “19 Finally, it is frequently argued that electoral turnout is positively associated with the competitiveness of elections (Blais, 2000; Franklin, 2004).”
The Effect of Information on Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (2005, background): “Related literature The literature on voter turnout is voluminous, and no attempt to survey it will be made here; recent surveys and discussions of the literature are provided in Blais (2000) and Schlozman (2002).”
Does education improve citizenship? Evidence from the United States and the United Kingdom (2004, background): “…into separate income and education effects and find the influence of education to be stronger than income.8 Powell (1985) suggests that the SESparticipation link is stronger in the United States than in other industrialized countries, a finding appearing again in Blais (2000) and Wattenberg (2002).”
Why We Boycott: Consumer Motivations for Boycott Participation (2004, background): “Boycotting is a collective act similar to voting, which is a prosocial behavior in which the individual benefit appears to be limited; nonetheless, people go to the polls in large numbers (for a discussion of the collective action problem in voting, see, e.g., Blais 2001; Downs 1957).”