Voter Turnout in Western Europe Since 1945
Author: Rafael López Pintor
Publisher: International IDEA
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 108
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Author: Rafael López Pintor
Publisher: International IDEA
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 108
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKVoter turnout in Western Europe since 1945 [electronic resource] : a regional report.
Author: Rafael López Pintor
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 92
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: International Idea
Publisher: International Idea
Published: 2005-04-28
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9780185391001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark N. Franklin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-04-19
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780521541473
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVoting is a habit. People learn the habit of voting, or not, based on experience in their first few elections. Elections that do not stimulate high turnout among young adults leave a 'footprint' of low turnout in the age structure of the electorate as many individuals who were new at those elections fail to vote at subsequent elections. Elections that stimulate high turnout leave a high turnout footprint. So a country's turnout history provides a baseline for current turnout that is largely set, except for young adults. This baseline shifts as older generations leave the electorate and as changes in political and institutional circumstances affect the turnout of new generations. Among the changes that have affected turnout in recent years, the lowering of the voting age in most established democracies has been particularly important in creating a low turnout footprint that has grown with each election.
Author: Rafael López Pintor
Publisher: International IDEA
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 190
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the most comprehensive compilation of voter turnout statistics ever published. The report includes statistics from more than 1,600 parliamentary and presidential elections in over 170 countries. Easy-to-use colour-coded tables give ready access to election turnout percentages from almost every contested national election that has taken place since the end of the Second World War. Graphs, charts and tables highlight trends in voter turnout and compare turnout between old and new democracies. Political participation in different regions is analysed and corresponding information is presented on the potential impact of literacy, a country's wealth and civil liberties on voter turnout. A colour-coded world map, showing turnout percentages from the most recent national elections, is also enclosed. In addition to the voter turnout statistics and analyses, this publication contains a thematic focus on voter registration. Voter registration is the process of exercising the franchise, and as such is a key condition of electoral participation. History shows us that the removal of barriers to registration is essential to the full exercise of a citizen's political rights.Country case studies as well as an analysis of the voter registration methods used today in the world are presented together with graphs and global information on voter registration.
Author: R. Dandoy
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-11-19
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 1137025441
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUtilizing both historical and new research data, this book analyzes voting patterns for local and national elections in thirteen west European countries from 1945-2011. The result of rigorous and in-depth country studies, this book challenges the popular second-order model and presents an innovative framework to study regional voting patterns.
Author: Alan Siaroff
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 443
ISBN-13: 1135580243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a comprehensive analysis of the party systems of the whole continent of Europe. This work also includes case studies of the Baltic States and Balkan democracies and goes as far east as Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, and Turkey.
Author: Oddbjørn Knutsen
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780739129265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClass Voting in Western Europe outlines the theories of changes in class voting and provides an empirical analysis of class voting. Knutsen's thorough study will provide a new, straightforward understanding of social class and party choice to anyone interested in the complex r...
Author: B. Cautrès
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011-06-29
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9781349290475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents the main results of an electoral panel study which is both unique and innovative not only in French political research but also among Western European electoral studies. The survey was conducted among a sample of 1,846 French voters interviewed on four separate occasions (2007 Presidential and Legislative elections).
Author: Martin Conway
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2022-06-14
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 0691204594
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major new history of how democracy became the dominant political force in Europe in the second half of the twentieth century What happened in the years following World War II to create a democratic revolution in the western half of Europe? In Western Europe's Democratic Age, Martin Conway provides an innovative new account of how a stable, durable, and remarkably uniform model of parliamentary democracy emerged in Western Europe—and how this democratic ascendancy held fast until the latter decades of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Conway describes how Western Europe's postwar democratic order was built by elite, intellectual, and popular forces. Much more than the consequence of the defeat of fascism and the rejection of Communism, this democratic order rested on universal male and female suffrage, but also on new forms of state authority and new political forces—primarily Christian and social democratic—that espoused democratic values. Above all, it gained the support of the people, for whom democracy provided a new model of citizenship that reflected the aspirations of a more prosperous society. This democratic order did not, however, endure. Its hierarchies of class, gender, and race, which initially gave it its strength, as well as the strains of decolonization and social change, led to an explosion of demands for greater democratic freedoms in the 1960s, and to the much more contested democratic politics of Europe in the late twentieth century. Western Europe's Democratic Age is a compelling history that sheds new light not only on the past of European democracy but also on the unresolved question of its future.