Introducing compulsory voting in the United States and other majoritarian democracies, with meaningful and enforceable penalties for abstention, has the potential to reduce political polarization and ...

Labour secured a massive Commons majority at last year’s general election with the support of just one in five eligible voters. The party won nearly two-thirds of MPs (63%) with just a third of the ...

Introducing compulsory voting in the United States and other majoritarian democracies, with meaningful and enforceable penalties for abstention, has the potential to reduce political polarization and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Compulsory voting laws have consistently been demonstrated to boost electoral participation. Despite the widespread presence of compulsory ...

A new study from the University of Georgia found that even unenforced, or “toothless,” compulsory voting laws can increase voter turnout. Governments around the world are searching for ways to combat ...

If democracy dies in this country, it can be blamed on people who did not bother to vote last November. During the 2024 presidential campaign, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump fought tooth and nail over ...

Because a coin that is thrown up, irrespective of the number of times, would always fall on either of its two sides, many of us would similarly continue to tell the members of the House of ...

The House Republicans are examining voting, specifically noncitizen voting, but why not look at the big issue, compulsory voting? In Australia all citizens can, and must, vote unless they are in ...

In the U.S., we love to tout how important our right to vote is — but what about our right not to vote? Voting is currently mandatory in 23 countries. In some, violators of the law can be fined, lose ...

For many observers, his defiant pledge to resist the law—at the cost of his own liberty—signals a critical juncture in Nigeria’s democratic evolution. Speaking on Politics Today, a political programme ...

In Nigeria, it appears that our leaders are obsessed with creating all sorts of laws using the instrument of power at their disposal without necessarily asking the relevant question of whether such ...