Is Compulsory Voting Defensible?

强制投票站得住脚吗？

• 批准号: DP0985074
• 负责人: Prof Lisa Hill
• 金额: $ 4.19万
• 依托单位: The University of Adelaide
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2009-01-01 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0985074
• 关键词: Compulsory; Voting; Defensible

If it can be demonstrated that, under the right conditions, compulsory voting is an acceptable solution to the escalating problem of declining turnout in industrialised, voluntary-voting systems, then the Australian regime will provide the ideal starting point from which to produce guidelines for the successful adoption and management of compulsory voting. Since Australia has, arguably, the best managed and tolerated compulsory voting regime in the world, the project has potentially enormous national significance in terms of publicising, promoting and exporting our electoral expertise. The project will also position Australian scholarship at the forefront of rapidly expanding global interest in the practice.

如果能够证明，在适当的条件下，强制投票是解决工业化、非自愿投票制度中投票率下降这一日益严重的问题的一个可接受的解决方案，那么澳大利亚的制度将提供一个理想的起点，为成功采用和管理强制投票制定指导方针。由于澳大利亚可以说拥有世界上管理和容忍度最好的强制投票制度，因此该项目在宣传、推广和输出我们的选举专业知识方面可能具有巨大的国家意义。该项目还将使澳大利亚奖学金处于全球对该实践兴趣迅速扩大的最前沿。