Compulsory Voting, Voter Turnout and Asymmetrical Habit-formation

Stefanie Gäbler, Niklas Potrafke and Felix Rösel
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Felix Roesel

VfS Annual Conference 2017 (Vienna): Alternative Structures for Money and Banking from Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association

Abstract: We examine whether compulsory voting (CV) influences habit-formation in voting asymmetrically across parties. We use a Differences-in-Differences and a Differences-in-Discontinuity approach to investigate the long-term effects of CV on turnout and party vote shares in Austria. The results show that CV increased turnout. When CV was abolished, turnout returned to the pre-compulsory level. We conclude that CV was not habit-forming and may have crowded out intrinsic motivation.

JEL-codes: D72 P16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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