Economic policies, labour unions and voter turnout in the advanced industrial democracies

Shawky Nasser

Journal of Economic Studies, 2025, vol. 52, issue 8, 1557-1571

Abstract: PurposeThis study aims to study the impact of unionisation of voter turnout, with unionisation instrumented with a measure of the nature of economic policy.Design/methodology/approachThe study made use of IV regression and panel data.FindingsUsing a nation-level panel of data relative to 20 advanced industrial democracies observed between 1960 and 2015, the empirical results of the IV regression of this paper show that economic policies determine the socio-economic conditions which influence the size of the labour unions, which, in turn, determine voter turnout.Originality/valueNo paper attempted to account for what influences unionisation when examining the relationship between unionisation and voter turnout.

Keywords: Economic policies; Labour unions; Voter turnout; IV regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1108/JES-02-2024-0077

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