1st Edition
Electoral Participation in Newly Consolidated Democracies Turnout in Africa, Latin America, East Asia, and Post-Communist Europe
By Elvis Bisong Tambe
Copyright 2021
252 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
252 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
252 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book examines why people vote in the newly consolidated democracies of Africa, Latin America, East Asia, and Central and Eastern European countries. It addresses the question of how well models or theories of electoral participation, initially developed in established democracies, "travel" to new democracies. Based on recent cross- national survey data, it provides the first systematic and... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Why Citizen Vote
3. Comparative Framework
4. Socio-Demographics and the Vote
5. Mobilisation and the Vote
6. Political-Psychological Variables and the Vote
7. Alternative Explanations and the Vote
8. The Electoral Context and the Vote
9. The Comparative Overview
Conclusion
Biography
Elvis Bisong Tambe is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Linnaeus University, Sweden.
