Do institutions really influence political participation? Contextual influences on turnout and participation in the world’s democracies
Paul Whiteley
University of Essex
Marianne Stewart
University of Texas at Dallas
David Sanders
University of Essex
Harold Clarke
University of Texas at Dallas
Introduction
There has been a good deal of research into the determinants of electoral turnout in a variety of different countries and this has identified a number of important factors that explain why people vote in aggregate models. Several of these analyses have emphasised the importance...