Retiring from Voting: Turnout among Senior Voters
In: Journal of elections, public opinion and parties, Band 22, Heft 4, S. 479-500
ISSN: 1745-7297
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In: Journal of elections, public opinion and parties, Band 22, Heft 4, S. 479-500
ISSN: 1745-7297
In: Electoral studies: an international journal, Band 31, Heft 2, S. 262-273
ISSN: 0261-3794
In: Electoral Studies, Band 31, Heft 2
Electoral turnout has been declining at national elections in almost all Western democracies. European Parliament (EP) elections have followed the same trend. We utilize a previously suggested method for separating the effect of generation, age and period and show that a major part of the decline can be attributed to the difference in turnout between pre- and post-baby-boomer generations though there are substantial differences across countries. Age has a curvilinear effect on turnout even when generation is taken into account, but the age composition has remained relatively stable over time. We utilize the estimated coefficients to predict future changes in turnout as a result of the expected shifts in the generational and age compositions over the next 30 years. The results point to a continued decline in turnout to EP elections -- especially between the years of 2020 and 2040. [Copyright Elsevier Ltd.]
In: Electoral Studies, Band 31, Heft 2, S. 262-272
Electoral turnout has been declining at national elections in almost all Western democracies. European Parliament (EP) elections have followed the same trend. We utilize a previously suggested method for separating the effect of generation, age and period and show that a major part of the decline can be attributed to the difference in turnout between pre- and post-baby-boomer generations though there are substantial differences across countries. Age has a curvilinear effect on turnout even when generation is taken into account, but the age composition has remained relatively stable over time. We utilize the estimated coefficients to predict future changes in turnout as a result of the expected shifts in the generational and age compositions over the next 30 years. The results point to a continued decline in turnout to EP elections -- especially between the years of 2020 and 2040. [Copyright Elsevier Ltd.]
In: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research, Band 50, Heft 2, S. 212-239
ISSN: 0304-4130
In: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research, Band 50, Heft 2, S. 212-238
ISSN: 1475-6765
In: Politica: tidsskrift for politisk videnskab, Band 38, Heft 1, S. 78-97
ISSN: 0105-0710
In: Politica, Band 38, Heft 1, S. 78-97
ISSN: 2246-042X
In: Scandinavian political studies, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 1-26
ISSN: 1467-9477
Within Europe, the Danish electorate is the one that has most often expressed its opinion about the European Union in elections and in national referendums. Votes and attitudes are analysed for the five elections to the European Parliament between 1979 and 1999 and in the six referendums – from the first on membership of the EC in 1972 to the September 2000 referendum on acceptance of the euro, the European single currency. The article gives an overview of the development of Danish public opinion in relation to the European Union from 1960 to 2000, the turnouts at referendums, and the elections and results for the European Parliament. It is shown that since Denmark joined the EU, public opinion has fluctuated greatly, although the balance among Danish European Parliament members has remained stable. The reasons for the frequent use of referendums in Denmark and a thematic outline of the six referendums are put forward. The article concludes with a comprehensive analysis of public attitudes towards the referendum on the euro in 2000. It is shown that regional electoral patterns have vanished, but underlying attitudes are manifested in the public.
In: Scandinavian political studies: SPS ; a journal, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 1-26
ISSN: 0080-6757
In: Public administration: an international quarterly, Band 80, Heft 4, S. 733-750
ISSN: 0033-3298
In: Electoral studies: an international journal on voting and electoral systems and strategy, Band 81, S. 102573
ISSN: 1873-6890
In: The journal of politics: JOP, S. 000-000
ISSN: 1468-2508
In: Dahlgaard , J O & Hansen , K M 2021 , ' Twice the trouble : Twinning and the cost of voting ' , Journal of Politics , vol. 83 , no. 3 , pp. 1173-1177 . https://doi.org/10.1086/711301
Scholars have argued that becoming a parent affects political behavior, including turnout. In this article, we identify the effect on turnout of having an additional child conditional on the decision to become a parent. When parents have a child, nature sometimes assigns additional children through twinning. We argue that conditional on age of parents and birth cohort this as-if randomly assigns an extra child to some parents. With a large data set of family composition and validated turnout for Danish voters, we find, consistent with additional children taking up parents' time and indirectly increasing the cost of voting, that having an additional child at the same time as another depresses turnout for both parents. Mothers who had twins in their first parity are 1.6 to 3.0 percentage points less likely to vote across three elections. For fathers, turnout is only depressed by 0.7 to 1.4 percentage points.
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