How can political actors shape voter turnout?

该项目旨在通过分析候选人和政党动员其支持者和遣散其批评者所采用的策略，调查个人投票率变化的原因。该项目将比较西班牙、墨西哥和印度各政党和候选人的动员和遣散战略。预期的结果包括增进对复员者、再次确认弃权者和已激活的选民的了解，对这些人的研究尚不充分。研究结果将加深对这些公民动机的理解，这是一个日益引起学术兴趣的话题，也将为寻求加强其治理干预设计的澳大利亚决策者提供信息。

This project aims to investigate what explains variations on individual's turnout rates by analysing the strategies employed by candidates and parties to mobilise their supporters and demobilise their detractors. The project will compare the mobilisation and demobilisation strategies of the parties and candidates in Spain, Mexico and India. Expected outcomes include an improved understanding of the demobilised, the re-affirmed abstainers and the activated voters, which are under-studied. The findings will enhance understanding of motivations of those citizens, a topic of growing scholarly interest, and also inform Australian policy makers seeking to enhance the design of their governance interventions.