Voter Turnout and Abstention in Context: A Multi-level Analysis of the Factors Affecting Voter Turnout and Abstention in Systems of Multi-Level Governance

背景下的选民投票率和弃权率：多层次治理体系中影响选民投票率和弃权率的因素的多层次分析

• 批准号: 0836409
• 负责人: Karen Jusko
• 金额: $ 19.96万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-15 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0836409&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Voter; Turnout; Abstention; Context; Multi

[This proposal is part of a funded CRP from the EuroCORES HumVIB competition.]Can electoral institutions overcome the political consequences of social exclusion and poverty? What role did political parties play in incorporating the working classes into the electorates of European democracies? And, why are so many Americans, particularly the working and lower middle people, still alienated from participation in their countrys electoral processes? This research begins with the premise that these questions reflect different perspectives on the same political phenomenon: The context of electoral competition especially the rules governing legislative elections and their interactions with the geographic distribution income shapes the incentives of political actors to mobilize and incorporate low-income and working-class citizens. The proposed research contributes to a recommended Collaborative Research Proposal from the EuroCORES HumVIB competition. Earlier accounts of the relationship redistributive policy emphasize a stark division between multimember district (MMD) electoral rules and single-member district (SMD) rules (e.g., Iversen & Soskice 2006, Persson & Tabellini 2000). These accounts, however, miss the important modifying effect of electoral context - specifically, the geographic distribution of citizens of different types - on the effect of electoral rules in structuring legislators' policy-making incentives. The intellectual merits of this proposal lie, therefore, in the recognition that given the national context in which elections are held - in particular, the geographic distribution of income - the electoral institutions of contemporary democracies may undermine the opportunities for those societies to achieve their democratic ideals.As part of a European Science Foundation Collaborative Research Scheme (EUROCORES), the proposed research will contribute to a broadly collaborative and highly integrated project that is motivated by questions about voter turnout. The proposed research will contribute to the theoretical development and data collection exercises of this larger project.

[这项提议是EUROCORES HumVIB竞赛资助的CRP的一部分。]选举机构能否克服社会排斥和贫困的政治后果？政党在将工人阶级纳入欧洲民主国家选民的过程中扮演了什么角色？而且，为什么这么多美国人，特别是工薪阶层和中下层人士，仍然疏远参与他们国家的选举进程？这项研究的前提是，这些问题反映了对同一政治现象的不同观点：选举竞争的背景，特别是立法选举的规则及其与收入地域分配的相互作用，决定了政治行为者动员和吸纳低收入和工薪阶层公民的动机。拟议的研究对EUROCORES HumVIB竞赛推荐的合作研究提案做出了贡献。早先对关系再分配政策的描述强调了多成员选区(MMD)选举规则和单一成员选区(SMD)规则之间的明显区别(例如，Iversen&amp；Soskice 2006，Persson&amp；Tabellini 2000)。然而，这些描述忽略了选举背景--特别是不同类型公民的地理分布--对选举规则在构建立法者决策激励机制方面的影响的重要修正作用。因此，这项建议的学术价值在于认识到，鉴于举行选举的国家背景--特别是收入的地理分配--当代民主国家的选举机构可能会破坏这些社会实现其民主理想的机会。作为欧洲科学基金会合作研究计划(EUROCORES)的一部分，拟议的研究将促进一个广泛合作和高度整合的项目，该项目的动机是关于选民投票率的问题。拟议的研究将有助于这一较大项目的理论发展和数据收集工作。