European Parliament Electoral Turnout in Post-Communist Europe

Christine Fauvelle-Aymar and Mary Stegmaier ()
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Christine Fauvelle-Aymar: LAEP - LAboratoire d'Economie Publique - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Mary Stegmaier: University of Virgnia - Department of Economics - University of Virginia

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Abstract: The relatively low voter turnout rates in the June 2004 European Parliamentary elections in many of the post-communist states surprised observers. While the average turnout rate for these new-EU member states barely surpassed 30%, turnout exhibited much variance at the national and sub-national levels. In this article, we study the determinants of European Parliamentary election voter turnout rates in the post-communist countries at the regional level. Our central hypothesis is that regional turnout rates may be related to regional economic conditions and that in areas experiencing economic hardship, turnout will be lower. We also assess the extent that EU attitudes matter for turnout. A unique data set, compiled at the NUTS-3.

Keywords: Economics of voting; participation; European Parliamentary election; post-communist countries; Economie du vote; participation économique; économies post-communistes; élections parlementaires européennes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-01
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Published in 2006

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