Do Institutions really influence political participation? Contextual influences on turnout and participation in the world's democracies

Paul Whiteley, Marianne Stewart, David Sanders and Harold Clarke

This paper examines the influence of institutions and other contextual variables in a set of individual-level models of political participation, using a multi-level modelling strategy.

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...

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