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dc.contributor.authorMartinez i Coma, Ferran
dc.contributor.authorWerner, Annika
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-07T01:33:15Z
dc.date.available2019-06-07T01:33:15Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.issn1351-0347
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13510347.2018.1524879
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/382261
dc.description.abstractInvalid voting, meaning blank and spoiled ballots, is a regular phenomenon in democracies around the world. When its share is larger than the margin of victory or greater than the vote share of some of the large parties in the country, invalid voting becomes a problem for democratic legitimacy. This article investigates its determinants in 417 democratic parliamentary elections in 73 countries on five continents from 1970 to 2011. The analysis shows that enforced compulsory voting and ethnic fragmentation are strong predictors for invalid voting while corruption has less impact. Our findings suggest that the societal structure is crucial in understanding invalid voting as a problem for democratic legitimacy because greater social diversity seems to lead to either a greater rate of mistakes or lesser attachments of social groups to the democratic process. Thus, rising levels of invalid voting are not only concerning in themselves but also for the divisive factors driving them.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom288
dc.relation.ispartofpageto308
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalDemocratization
dc.relation.ispartofvolume26
dc.relation.urihttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/ARC/DP190101978
dc.relation.grantIDDP190101978
dc.relation.fundersARC
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolitical science
dc.subject.fieldofresearchComparative government and politics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4408
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode440803
dc.titleCompulsory voting and ethnic diversity increase invalid voting while corruption does not: an analysis of 417 parliamentary elections in 73 countries
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Business School, Centre for Governance and Public Policy
gro.rights.copyright© 2018 Taylor & Francis (Routledge). This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Democratization on 28 Sept 2018, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2018.1524879.
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gro.griffith.authorMartinez Coma, Fernando


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