Compulsory for Whom? Mandatory Voting and Electoral Participation in Brazil, 1986-2006 Obrigatório para Quem? Voto Obrigatório e Participação Eleitoral no Brasil, 1986 a 2006
Latin America contains roughly half of the world’s countries that use compulsory voting, but this electoral institution has received only limited attention from researchers. This article examines the determinants of voter turnout in the world’s largest electorate subject to mandatory voting, that of...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2009-04-01
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Series: | Journal of Politics in Latin America |
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Online Access: | http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jpla/article/view/23 |