-term effects of compulsory voting on voter turnout, invalid votes and vote shares for left-wing and right-wing parties. The results … show that compulsory voting increased voter turnout by 3.4 percentage points. When compulsory voting was abolished, voter … turnout, however, returned to the pre-compulsory voting level. The results also do not suggest that compulsory voting …

Voter turnout has declined in many industrialized countries, raising the question of whether electoral institutions … increase voter turnout. We exploit an electoral reform in the Austrian state of Burgenland as a natural experiment to identify … the causal effect of opening hours of polling stations on voter turnout. The results show that a 10 percent increase in …

We examine whether compulsory voting influences political participation as measured by voter turnout, invalid voting … legislation using a difference-in-differences approach. The results show that compulsory voting increased voter turnout by 3 ….5 percentage points but we do not find long-run effects. Once compulsory voting was abolished, voter turnout returned to pre …

Voter turnout has declined in many industrialized countries, raising the question of whether electoral institutions … increase voter turnout. We exploit an electoral reform in the Austrian state of Burgenland as a natural experiment to identify … the causal effect of opening hours of polling stations on voter turnout. The results show that a 10 percent increase in …