Voter turnout and the principle of ‘one person, one vote’: empirical evidence from the constituency freeze in India
Voter turnout and the principle of ‘one person, one vote’: empirical evidence from the constituency freeze in India
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选民投票率与“一人一票”原则：来自印度选区冻结的经验证据
DOI：
10.1080/00036846.2015.1023939
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Yuko Mori
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Egawa;R.;Hososhima;S.;Hou;X.;Katow;H;S.;Ishizuka;T. Nakamura;H.;and Yawo;H.;吉武由彩;江川遼;吉武由彩;江川遼;吉武由彩;江川遼;江川遼;江川遼;江川 遼;江川 遼;江川 遼;江川 遼;江川 遼;江川 遼;Yuko Mori
本文使用 1977 年至 2007 年期间印度全国和邦选举的面板数据来研究选区人口规模不平等对选民投票率的影响。在此期间，印度的选区边界保持固定。结果，选区之间人口规模的差异加大，从而改变了单张选票的价值。利用人口规模和信息数据的巨大差异，本文仔细地区分了人口规模与其他因素的影响。我们发现，选民增加 100 万会使选民投票率下降 12-27%。此外，我们发现，在人口较少的选区，国家政党获得的选票份额更大。这表明政党在竞选活动中优先将精力投向人口较少的选区；因此，小选区的选民更有可能参加选举。
This article uses panel data from national and state elections in India during the period 1977–2007 to examine the effect of inequality in constituency population size on voter turnout. During this period, constituency boundaries in India remained fixed. As a result, differences in population size between constituencies increased, thus changing the value of a single vote. Using this large variation in population size and informative data, this article carefully distinguishes the effect of population size from other factors. We find that an increase of one million electorates decreases voter turnout by 12–27%. In addition, we find that the share of votes gained by national political parties is greater in small-population constituencies. This suggests that political parties direct their efforts in electoral campaigns preferentially to less populous constituencies; as a result, voters in small constituencies are more likely to participate in elections.